Sympathetic overactivity due to sleep fragmentation is associated with elevated diurnal systolic blood pressure in healthy elderly subjects: The PROOF-SYNAPSE study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 28, 2013, Pages 2122-2131

  Chouchou, F ^a   Pichot, V ^a   Pepin J L ^b   Tamisier, R ^b   Celle, S ^a   Maudoux, D ^a   Garcin, A ^a   Levy P ^b   Barthelemy J C ^a   Roche, F ^a  

^a Jean Monnet University of Saint Étienne   (France)

^b University Grenoble Alpes   (France)

Author keywords

Elderly; Heart rate variability; Hypertension; Pulse transit time; Sleep; Sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP FRAGMENTATION; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

ELDERLY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYPERTENSION; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC ACTIVITY;

AGED; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84880939029     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht208     Document Type: Article

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