. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2022 Mar 1;54(3):408–416. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002823

Table 2.

Participant characteristics Protocol 2.

	PMW −E2 (n = 6)	PMW +E2 (n=6)

Age, yrs	53 ± 1	--
BMI, kg/m²	26 ± 1	26 ± 1
SBP, mmHg	122 ± 4	120 ± 4
DBP, mmHg	78 ± 3	74 ± 2 ^*
MAP, mmHg	93 ± 3	89 ± 3 ^*
HR, bpm	62 ± 2	59 ± 2
MSNA, bursts/min	28 ± 4	23 ± 3
MSNA, bursts/100 hb	38 ± 7	33 ± 5

Values are mean ± SE. PMW, postmenopausal women; −E2, baseline before initiation of estradiol; +E2, 1month post estradiol; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; MAP, mean arterial pressure; HR, heart rate; MSNA, muscle sympathetic nerve activity.

P<0.05 vs. −E2.