Sympathetic reserve, serum potassium, and orthostatic intolerance after endurance exercise and implications for neurocardiogenic syncope

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1531-1541

  Gratze, Gerfried ^a   Mayer, Harald ^a   Skrabal, Falko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Continuous blood pressure; Haemodynamics; Marathon; Spectral analysis; Syncope

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; NEUROCARDIOGENIC SYNCOPE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; REST; SINUS NODE; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POTASSIUM; RUNNING; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 45849134472     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn193     Document Type: Article

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