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The secondary aim was to explore sex differences in prolonged sitting-induced increases in SBPV and DBPV.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Thirty-three adults (22.9 ± 1.9 years; 17 females) completed a single, 3-hour bout of prolonged sitting with beat-by-beat arterial pressure determined at baseline, 1.5-hour, and 3-hour via finger photoplethysmography.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>There were no sex differences observed for baseline brachial SBP (males: 122 ± 10 mm Hg; females: 111 ± 9 mm Hg), SBPV (males: 1.87 ± 0.63 mm Hg; females: 1.51 ± 0.38 mm Hg), DBP (males: 68 ± 6 mm Hg; females: 66 ± 8 mm Hg), or DBPV (males: 1.40 ± 0.41 mm Hg; females: 1.27 ± 0.32 mm Hg) (all, P &amp;gt; 0.41). In the pooled sample, baseline SBPV (1.68 ± 0.54 mm Hg) remained unchanged after 1.5 hours (1.80 ± 0.60 mm Hg; P = 0.59) but increased after 3.0 hours (1.84 ± 0.52 mm Hg; P = 0.01). This post-sitting increase was driven by males (P = 0.009), with no difference observed in females (P = 1.00). Similarly, baseline DBPV (1.33 ± 0.36 mm Hg) was similar after 1.5 hours (1.42 ± 0.41 mm Hg; P = 0.72) but was increased at 3 hours (1.50 ± 0.34 mm Hg; P = 0.02). However, no sex differences in DBPV (all, P &amp;gt; 0.07) were observed across the time points.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In young, normotensive adults, a single bout of prolonged sitting augmented beat-by-beat blood pressure variability, which may provide a link between uninterrupted sitting and the development of blood pressure dysregulation.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>","journal":"American Journal of Hypertension","year":2024,"id":643871,"datarank":0.24141568686511508,"base_score":1.6094379124341003,"endowment":1.6094379124341003,"self_citation_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":503223,"name":"Haoxuan Liu","orcid":"0000-0003-2402-9679","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1456437,"name":"Yanlin Wu","orcid":"0000-0003-3273-4001","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1675553,"name":"Sophie E Rayner","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1675554,"name":"Derek S Kimmerly","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1023024,"name":"Myles W. 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The secondary aim was to explore sex differences in prolonged sitting-induced increases in SBPV and DBPV.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Thirty-three adults (22.9 ± 1.9 years; 17 females) completed a single, 3-hour bout of prolonged sitting with beat-by-beat arterial pressure determined at baseline, 1.5-hour, and 3-hour via finger photoplethysmography.</jats:p>\n               </jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>There were no sex differences observed for baseline brachial SBP (males: 122 ± 10 mm Hg; females: 111 ± 9 mm Hg), SBPV (males: 1.87 ± 0.63 mm Hg; females: 1.51 ± 0.38 mm Hg), DBP (males: 68 ± 6 mm Hg; females: 66 ± 8 mm Hg), or DBPV (males: 1.40 ± 0.41 mm Hg; females: 1.27 ± 0.32 mm Hg) (all, P &amp;gt; 0.41). In the pooled sample, baseline SBPV (1.68 ± 0.54 mm Hg) remained unchanged after 1.5 hours (1.80 ± 0.60 mm Hg; P = 0.59) but increased after 3.0 hours (1.84 ± 0.52 mm Hg; P = 0.01). This post-sitting increase was driven by males (P = 0.009), with no difference observed in females (P = 1.00). Similarly, baseline DBPV (1.33 ± 0.36 mm Hg) was similar after 1.5 hours (1.42 ± 0.41 mm Hg; P = 0.72) but was increased at 3 hours (1.50 ± 0.34 mm Hg; P = 0.02). 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