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Hypertension, Vol 8, 147-153, Copyright © 1986 by American Heart Association


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Arterial baroreflexes and blood pressure and heart rate variabilities in humans

G Mancia, G Parati, G Pomidossi, R Casadei, M Di Rienzo and A Zanchetti

The factors responsible for 24-hour blood pressure and heart rate variabilities have never been clarified; however, studies performed in unanesthetized animals have shown an increase in blood pressure variability after sinoaortic denervation, and a negative relationship has been reported occasionally between blood pressure variability and baroreflex control of heart rate in humans. We have systematically investigated this issue in 82 ambulant hypertensive subjects using 24- hour intraarterial blood pressure recording (Oxford method) in which blood pressure and heart rate variabilities were measured by calculating the standard deviations of the values obtained throughout the 24 hours or during separate daytime and nighttime periods. Baroreflex sensitivity was assessed by the bradycardic or tachycardic responses to intravenous injections of phenylephrine or nitroglycerin and by the blood pressure response to changes in carotid transmural pressure obtained with a neck chamber. The sensitivity of the baroreceptor-heart rate reflex as assessed by the vasoactive drug technique showed a negative relationship with 24-hour blood pressure variability as well as with daytime and nighttime blood pressure variabilities measured separately (r = -0.28 to -0.50, p less than 0.05). These variabilities also correlated negatively with the sensitivity of the baroreceptor-blood pressure reflex as assessed by the neck chamber technique. By contrast, baroreflex sensitivity showed a positive correlation with heart rate variabilities (r = 0.32 to 0.47, p less than 0.05). The relationship between baroreflex sensitivity and blood pressure and heart rate variabilities was confirmed when the data were analyzed by multiple regression to adjust for blood pressure and age differences among the 82 subjects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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