A 55-year-old man with massive hemorrhage from a ruptured aortic aneurysm is in hypovolemic shock. A 48-year-old woman with anaphylaxis to penicillin is in distributive shock. Which feature most reliably distinguishes hypovolemic shock from anaphylactic shock?

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