The feasibility of baroreflex sensitivity measurements in heart failure subjects: The role of slow-patterned breathing.

Réka UrbancsekZoltán CsanádiIldikó N ForgácsTímea B PappJudit BoczánJudit BartaCsaba JeneiLászló NagyLászló Rudas

Published in: Clinical physiology and functional imaging (2022)

The determinability of BRSsymp in heart failure patients is limited, especially with the 0.7 limit for correlation. Undeterminable BRSsymp in patients is associated with higher sympathetic activity. 6/min breathing improves the determinability of cardiovagal BRS indices, but not that of BRSsymp.

Keyphrases

ejection fraction
heart failure
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
atrial fibrillation