Blood pressure and heart rate variability analysis of orthostatic challenge in normal human pregnancies

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 384-390

  Heiskanen, Nonna ^a,c   Saarelainen, Heli ^a   Valtonen, Pirjo ^b   Lyyra laitinen, Tiina ^c   Laitinen, Tomi ^c   Vanninen, Esko ^c   Heinonen, Seppo ^a  

^a Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Australia)

^b Clinical Chemistry

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cardiovascular responses; Haemodynamic responses; Head up tilt; Pregnant women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD TILTING; HEART BEAT; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PARITY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PUERPERIUM; PULSE WAVE; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PARTURITION; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; POSTURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 54349094540     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2008.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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