Individual stability of orthostatic tolerance response

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-166

  Goswami, Nandu ^a   Lackner, H K ^c   Grasser, E K ^a   Hinghofer Szalkay, H G ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Graded orthostatic stress; Head up tilt; Heart rate; Hemodynamics; LBNP; Mean arterial blood pressure; Orthostatic tolerance; Presyncope

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNCOPE; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 65749120711     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: 15882683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/APhysiol.96.2009.2.2     Document Type: Article

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