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04-11-2023 | Dementia | Editorial

Recent updates in autonomic research: new insights into vagal nerve activity during exercise, cardiac autonomic neuropathy and silent myocardial infarction in diabetes, and timing of orthostatic blood pressure change and future risk of dementia

Author: Guillaume Lamotte

Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research | Issue 6/2023

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Cardiovascular adjustments must occur during exercise to match increased metabolic demands from working muscles. The classic model of autonomic regulation during exercise proposes a feedforward mechanism, known as central command, and feedback mechanisms including the baroreflex, the exercise pressor reflex, and the arterial chemoreflex [1]. During exercise, these neural circulatory control mechanisms promote sympathetic activation to the heart and arterioles and attenuate parasympathetic activity to the heart [1]. Therefore, classic views suggest that parasympathetic (vagal) activity to the heart is reduced during exercise. Shanks and colleagues challenged the notion that sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems activity opposite each other during exercise [2]. …

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Title: Recent updates in autonomic research: new insights into vagal nerve activity during exercise, cardiac autonomic neuropathy and silent myocardial infarction in diabetes, and timing of orthostatic blood pressure change and future risk of dementia
Author: Guillaume Lamotte
Publication date: 04-11-2023
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Dementia
Dementia
Hypotension
Myocardial Infarction
Hypotension
Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research / Issue 6/2023
Print ISSN: 0959-9851
Electronic ISSN: 1619-1560
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-023-00999-x

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