Lower-limb hot-water immersion acutely induces beneficial hemodynamic and cardiovascular responses in peripheral arterial disease and healthy, elderly controls

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 312, Issue 3, 2017, Pages R281-R291

  Thomas, Kate N ^a,b   van Rij, André M ^a   Lucas, Samuel J E ^b,c   Cotter, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antegrade; Elderly; Heat therapy; PAD; Passive heat; Peripheral arterial disease; Peripheral vascular disease; PVD; Shear rate; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HOT WATER;

AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; LOWER LIMB; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THERMOTHERAPY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; WATER IMMERSION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEAT; IMMERSION; LEG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROCEDURES; SHEAR STRENGTH; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMERSION; LEG; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 85014697869     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00404.2016     Document Type: Article

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