Autonomic and cardiovascular effects of acute high altitude exposure after myocardial infarction and in normal volunteers

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1485-1491

  Messerli Burgy, Nadine ^a,b   Meyer, Katharina ^b   Steptoe, Andrew ^c   Laederach Hofmann, Kurt ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Health Observatory   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic response; High altitude exposure; Mental stress; Myocardial infarction; Stress recovery

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS;

AGED; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; REST; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 69049120990     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0004     Document Type: Article

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