Yasina Somani
- Jul 25, 2018
- 2 min
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PUBLICATIONS
Academic Publications
In this collaborative project with our research group at Penn State and the University of Calgary, we showed that near-infrared spectroscopy was able to detect changes in microvascular responsiveness following a 20 minute forearm ischemia in young men.
Somani, YB, Moore DJ, Kim DJK, Gonzales JU, Barlow MA, Elavsky S, Proctor DN. Retrograde and Oscillatory Shear Increase Across the Menopause Transition. Physiological Reports, 2019
In this work, our group showed that retrograde and oscillatory shear stress, which is associated with decrements to endothelial function, increase across the menopause transition, even after adjusting for age and other cardiovascular disease risk factors. We also showed that these increases are associated with increases in follicle-stimulating hormone, a marker of reproductive aging in women.
Soares, R. N., Somani, Y. B., Proctor, D. N., & Murias, J. M. The association between near-infrared spectroscopy-derived and flow-mediated dilation assessment of vascular responsiveness in the arm. Microvascular Research, 2019, 122, 41–44.
This was a methodological study completed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Calgary. We showed that there was an association between microvascular function as assessed with near-infrared spectroscopy and the traditionally used flow mediated dilation test performed in the brachial artery in young men.
Yasina B Somani, Anthony W Baross, Robert D Brook, Kevin J Milne, Cheri L McGowan, Ian L Swaine; Acute Response to a 2-Minute Isometric Exercise Test Predicts the Blood Pressure-Lowering Efficacy of Isometric Resistance Training in Young Adults, American Journal of Hypertension, Volume 31, Issue 3, 9 February 2018.
In this collaborative project with researchers in the UK, our research group found that the blood pressure response to a simple exercise test was able to predict who would have the greatest reductions in blood pressure following 10 weeks of isometric resistance training in young adults.
Somani Y, Baross A, Levy P, Zinszer K, Milne K, Swaine I, McGowan C. Reductions in ambulatory blood pressure in young normotensive men and women after isometric resistance training and its relationship with cardiovascular reactivity. Blood Pressure Monitoring. 2017 Feb;22(1):1-7.
We showed that 10 weeks of isometric resistance training resulted in equal reductions in both resting and 24-hour blood pressure in young men and women. 24-hour, or ambulatory blood pressure, has been shown to have greater prognostic value than traditional resting measures.
Video Posts
My video entry to the 2018 American Physiological contest. Contestants were challenged to describe a physiological concept in under 5 minutes to a non-expert audience. In this video I describe a reflex in our body that is involved in the short-term regulation of blood pressure called the baroreflex.
During my Masters at the University of Windsor, I participated in a graduate research speaking contest called the 3MT. We were challenged to describe our research to a group of non-experts in 3 minutes or less. Among the 28 graduate students who participated, I placed first in the regional competition. I also placed in the provincial and national competition.
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