Slow Heart Rate Recovery Is Associated with Increased Exercise-induced Arterial Stiffness in Normotensive Patients without Overt Atherosclerosis.
In-Ho YangHui Jeong HwangHong Ki JeonIl-Suk SohnChang Bum ParkEun Sun JinJin Man ChoChong Jin KimTaek Gu LeePublished in: Journal of cardiovascular imaging (2019)
Sympathovagal imbalance demonstrated by slow HRR was associated with increased arterial stiffness and, above all, was closely associated with exercise-induced arterial stiffness in normotensive patients without overt atherosclerosis. This phenomenon might have been observed because blunt carotid arterial vasomotion following exercise results from autonomic dysfunction as well as vascular endothelial dysfunction.