Autonomic Changes in Patients with Heart Failure and in Post-myocardial Infarction Patients

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Journal Heart

Date 2004 Oct 16

PMID 15486114

Citations 42

Authors

M P Frenneaux

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Abstract

A range of techniques for the assessment of autonomic tone are described. Impaired baroreflex control of heart period, measured in terms of heart rate variability or baroreflex sensitivity, is independently associated with adverse prognosis in patients with heart failure and following acute myocardial infarction. These techniques have not yet entered routine clinical practice.

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