Chemoreflexes, Sleep Apnea, and Sympathetic Dysregulation

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Mansukhani, Meghna P ^a   Kara, Tomas ^b,c   Caples, Sean M ^c   Somers, Virend K ^c  

^a Affiliated Community Medical Centers PA   (United States)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic control; Autonomic dysfunction; Autonomic imbalance; Baroreflex; Cardiovascular variability; Carotid body; Heart rate variability; Hypercapnia; Hypoxia; Mechanisms; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Obstructive sleep apnea; Peripheral chemoreceptors; Renin angiotensin system; Sleep deprivation; Sleep disordered breathing; Sympathetic activation; Sympathetic activity; Sympathetic response; Sympathoexcitation; Systemic hypertension; Vascular factors

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMORECEPTOR CELL; COMPLICATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; HUMANS; REFLEX; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84939894268     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-014-0476-2     Document Type: Review

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