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A non-invasive method for testing neural circulatory control in man.

Abstract：

:Exaggerated cardiovascular responsiveness is common in young men and may cause non-specific symptoms and poor performance. Conventional autonomic function tests are not clinically useful. We have therefore designed a thermal entrainment method to evaluate sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiovascular function in subjects with dystonic symptoms and orthostatic intolerance. Oscillations of thermal gradient in the skin were produced by standardised periodic stimulation of the lower part of the arm with warm and cool water. Vasomotor activity of the skin induced oscillations of arterial blood pressure which were thought to be regulated by sympathetic and parasympathetic heart rate control and by oscillation of the sympathetically controlled peripheral vascular resistance. We tested the method in subjects with cardiovascular symptoms (n = 7) and controls (n = 7). At supine rest, the frequency response of the heart rate variability to the thermal stimulation at frequencies of 0.01, 0.02, 0.03 and 0.1 Hz was significantly different (p = 0.008) between symptomatic subjects and controls. The gain of the heart rate control was increased to 0.03 Hz [-1.3(SEM 0.5) dB v -3.8(0.8) dB, p = 0.068] and decreased at 0.1 Hz [-3.9(1.1) dB v -1.5(0.6) dB, p = 0.076] in the test group compared to the control group. At stimulus frequencies of less than 0.03 Hz the individual overall heart rate variability of the subjects with symptoms stayed below the mean control value, at 60(6) ms v 79(15) ms, p = 0.16. The cutaneous temperature oscillations at the site of stimulation, frequency response of the oscillations of the skin blood flow and respiration to the thermal stimulation, and mean heart rate were similar in the both groups. The results show that this thermal entrainment method quantifies the increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic cardiac control of subjects with dystonic symptoms.

journal_name

Cardiovasc Res

journal_title

Cardiovascular research

authors

Lindqvist A,Parviainen P,Kolari P,Tuominen J,Välimäki I,Antila K,Laitinen LA

doi

10.1093/cvr/23.3.262

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-03-01 00:00:00

pages

262-72

issue

eissn

0008-6363

issn

1755-3245

journal_volume

pub_type

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A non-invasive method for testing neural circulatory control in man.