Reduced baroreflex sensitivity in alcoholic cirrhosis: Relations to hemodynamics and humoral systems

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Møller, Søren ^a   Iversen, Jens S ^a,b   Henriksen, Jens H ^a   Bendtsen, Flemming ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular dysfunction; Central circulation time; Hyperdynamic circulation; Renin angiotensin aldosterone system; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSITION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPINE POSITION; VASODILATATION;

ALDOSTERONE; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASODILATION;

EID: 34447515527     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01227.2006     Document Type: Article

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