Determinants of spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity in a healthy working population.

Journal article

Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) by the spontaneous sequence technique has been widely used as a cardiac autonomic index for a variety of pathological conditions. However, little information is available on determinants of the variability of spontaneous BRS and on age-related reference values of this measurement in a healthy population. We evaluated BRS as the slope of spontaneous changes in systolic blood pressure (BP) and pulse interval from 10 minutes BP (Finapres) and ECG recordings in 1134 h...

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Authors: Kardos, A; Watterich, G; de Menezes, R; Csanády, M; Casadei, B

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Hypertension
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 911-916
• Publication date: 2001-03-01
• DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.37.3.911
• EISSN: 1524-4563
• ISSN: 0194-911X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Smoking; Multivariate Analysis; Female; Pulse; Adult; Middle Aged; Age Factors; Male; Body Mass Index; Reference Values; Baroreflex; Humans; Adolescent; Blood Pressure; European Continental Ancestry Group; Electrocardiography; Heart Rate