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Accepted: 6 June 2024

First Online: 27 June 2024

Declarations

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: No funding was associated with this project.

: The authors did not receive support from any organization or funding sources for the submitted work. Matthew S. Tenan is an Editorial Board member of Sports Medicine. Matthew S. Tenan was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions.

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: The preprint version of this work is available on medRxiv: . All data were retrieved from publicly available sources – Physionet () and Mol et al. (2020) <i>Pulse transit time as a proxy for vasoconstriction in younger and older adults</i>.

: Data included in the simulation and the related R code can be made available upon request.

: HGD and MT conceived the study idea and conducted an initial literature review. Prior to the statistical analysis, all authors agreed upon the study parameters and provided critical feedback on cardiovascular principles. JC and JA extracted PAT data from the Mol et al. study. HGD, MT, JA, and JC conducted data analysis and MT conducted statistical analyses. All authors have provided critical revisions during the writing process. All authors have read and approved the final submitted manuscript and agree to be accountable for the work presented.