Sex differences in Black Veterans with PTSD: women versus men have higher sympathetic activity, inflammation, and blunted cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity.
Ida T FonkoueChowdhury Tasnova TahsinToure N JonesKeyona N KingChowdhury Ibtida TahminJinhee JeongDeirdre DixonDana R DaCostaJeanie ParkPublished in: Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society (2023)
Black women with PTSD have higher resting HR and MSNA, greater impairment of cardiovagal BRS and possibly higher inflammation. These findings suggest a higher burden of autonomic and inflammatory derangements in Black women compared to Black men with PTSD.