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We collected historical data from SS patients (patients with vasovagal syncope with sleep syncope; n=16) and NSS patients (patients with vasovagal syncope without sleep syncope; n=35), including demography, and triggers and symptoms during syncope. MBP (mean blood pressure), HR (heart rate) and MSNA (muscle sympathetic nerve activity) in SS patients were compared with NSS patients and matched controls (n=16) during HG (handgrip), CPTs (cold pressor tests), HUT (head-up tilting) and tilt-induced pre-syncope. Patients and controls were of similar age and gender distribution [SS patients, age 46.0\u00b14\u00a0years (69% female); NSS patients, 47.3\u00b14\u00a0years (63% female); controls, 43.7\u00b15\u00a0years (69% female)]. Compared with NSS patients, SS patients reported more fainting episodes: (i) triggered by phobias (75 compared with 37%; P=0.001); (ii) while in the horizontal position (44 compared with 6%; P=0.001); and (iii) associated with abdominal symptoms (69 compared with 9%; P=0.001). Compared with controls, the MBP response to HG was attenuated in SS patients (P=0.016), and MSNA (burst frequency and incidence) responses to CPT were attenuated in both syncope groups (SS, P=0.011 and 0.003 respectively; NSS, P=0.021 and 0.049 respectively). MSNA responses to HUT did not differ. For both non-baroreflex and baroreflex responses, there were no differences in any of the MSNA indices between the syncope groups. Patients with vasovagal syncope, with or without sleep syncope, have very similar sympatho-vagal responses to both non-baroreflex and baroreflex stimuli. This is consistent with sleep syncope being a subform of vasovagal syncope. 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