Manuela Colombo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether these alterations involve sympathetic drive in 10 young obese sub-groups and found that the sympathetic drive was not involved in the majority of the cases.

TL;DR: Reduction in body weight induced by a hypocaloric diet with normal sodium content exerts a marked reduction in sympathetic activity owing to central sympathoinhibition, which can be due to the consequences of an increased insulin sensitivity but also to a restoration of the baroreflex control of the cardiovascular system with weight loss.

TL;DR: In various diseases, muscle but not skin sympathetic activity is increased, with the sympathetic activation not being uniformly distributed over the whole cardiovascular system, in essential hypertension, obesity, and congestive heart failure.

TL;DR: The natural menstrual cycle is characterized by alterations in radial artery distensibility, which is possible to be due to an estrogen-dependent reduction in vascular smooth muscle tone, whereas the arterial stiffening of the luteal phase depends on vascular smooth Muscle contraction due to more complex hormonal phenomena.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that massive weight loss induced by sleeve gastrectomy triggers profound sympathoinhibitory effects, associated with a stable and significant reduction in plasma leptin levels, whereas the improvement in insulin sensitivity was attenuated with time and unrelated to the sympathoinhibition.