What is it about?
The baroreflex is an essential component of cardiovascular function. The main role of the baroreflex is to detect changes in blood pressure and alter other cardiovascular variables accordingly to keep blood pressure within a set range. In heart failure, individuals have reduced cardiovascular function and this new baroreflex effectiveness index may be a more sensitive measure of baroreflex function.
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Why is it important?
The determination of baroreflex effectiveness index further characterizes autonomic regulation of cardiovascular function in heart failure.
Perspectives
Heart failure is associated with cardiovascular dysfunction, this newly developed index may provide further information that may have future clinical utility.
Joseph Watso
University of Delaware
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This page is a summary of: The baroreflex effectiveness index as an early marker of autonomic dysfunction in heart failure, The Journal of Physiology, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1113/jp274664.
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