Sex differences in aortic stiffness following acute resistance exercise

- Women have an attenuated increase in aortic stiffness following acute resistance exercise.
- Increases in aortic stiffness are related to changes in mean arterial pressure.
- Women may have an attenuated pressure response to acute resistance exercise.
- Changes in mean pressure are related to muscular strength.
- Lower muscular strength → lower pressure response → lessened increase in aortic stiffness.