Clinical Autonomic Research

• Open Access
• Hypertension
• Editorial

Raising awareness for cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction: the 2023 European Society of Hypertension guidelines revisited

Jens Jordan, Italo Biaggioni

• Editorial

Coffee drinking then and now: research continues to better understand this ubiquitous beverage

Murray Esler

• Parkinson Disease
• Editorial

Tackling the usefulness of neurofilament light chain in multiple system atrophy: diagnostic and prognostic perspectives

Daniel G. Di Luca, Patricio Millar Vernetti

• 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

Guillaume Lamotte

• Open Access
• Research Article

Immediate effect of caffeine on sympathetic nerve activity: why coffee is safe? A single-centre crossover study

Jennifer M. Butler, Christopher M. Frampton, Grant Moore, Murray L. Barclay, David L. Jardine

• Parkinson Disease
• Research Article

Neurofilament light chain in spinal fluid and plasma in multiple system atrophy: a prospective, longitudinal biomarker study

Wolfgang Singer, Ann M. Schmeichel, David M. Sletten, Tonette L. Gehrking, Jade A. Gehrking, Jorge Trejo-Lopez, Mariana D. Suarez, Jennifer K. Anderson, Pamela H. Bass, Timothy G. Lesnick, Phillip A. Low

• Open Access
• Hypertension
• Research Article

The association between sleep duration and muscle sympathetic nerve activity

Bryan W. S. Tai, Tye Dawood, Vaughan G. Macefield, Stephanie R. Yiallourou

• Open Access
• Tachyarrythmia
• Research Article

Semi-supervised exercise training program more effective for individuals with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in randomized controlled trial

Courtney M. Wheatley-Guy, Meredith G. Shea, Jordan K. Parks, Robert Scales, Brent P. Goodman, Richard J. Butterfield, Bruce D. Johnson

• Separation Anxiety Disorder
• Research Article

Pain associated with intravascular instrumentation reduces orthostatic tolerance and predisposes to vasovagal reactions in healthy young adults without needle phobia: a randomised controlled study

Brooke C. D. Hockin, Vera-Ellen M. Lucci, Ryan E. Y. Wu, Michelle Nicholas, Iain T. Parsons, Victoria E. Claydon

• Open Access
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Research Article

Sweat gland nerve fiber density and association with sudomotor function, symptoms, and risk factors in adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Vinni Faber Rasmussen, Ann Schmeichel, Mathilde Thrysøe, Jens Randel Nyengaard, Ann-Margrethe Rønholt Christensen, Esben Thyssen Vestergaard, Kurt Kristensen, Astrid Juhl Terkelsen, Páll Karlsson, Wolfgang Singer

• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Research Article

Augmented resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in patients with chronic kidney disease

Jeann L. Sabino-Carvalho, Jinhee Jeong, Justin Sprick, Dana DaCosta, Massimo Nardone, Jeanie Park

• Heart Failure
• Research Article

Cholinesterase inhibitors associated with lower rate of mortality in dementia patients with heart failure: a nationwide propensity weighting study

Ming-Jer Hsieh, Cheng-Hung Lee, Dong-Yi Chen, Chia-Ling Wu, Yu-Tung Huang, Shang-Hung Chang

• Hypoglycemia
• Research Article

Effect of hypoglycemia on baroreflex sensitivity in individuals with type 2 diabetes: implications for autonomic control of cardiovascular function in diabetes

Andrea V. Haas, Andrew Koefoed, Rebecca M. Easly, Johanna Celli, Mahyar Heydarpour, Istvan Bonyhay, Roy Freeman, Gail K. Adler

• Parkinson Disease
• Research Article

Cardiac 18F-dopamine positron emission tomography predicts the type of phenoconversion of pure autonomic failure

Abhishek Lenka, Risa Isonaka, Courtney Holmes, David S. Goldstein

• Open Access
• Vasovagal Syncope
• Research Article

Variability of cardioinhibition in vasovagal syncope: differences between subgroups during cardioinhibition and beyond

Ineke A. van Rossum, Frederik J. de Lange, David G. Benditt, Erik W. van Zwet, Marc van Houwelingen, Roland D. Thijs, J. Gert van Dijk

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Research Article

Sex differences in Black Veterans with PTSD: women versus men have higher sympathetic activity, inflammation, and blunted cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity

Ida T. Fonkoue, Chowdhury Tasnova Tahsin, Toure N. Jones, Keyona N. King, Chowdhury Ibtida Tahmin, Jinhee Jeong, Deirdre Dixon, Dana R. DaCosta, Jeanie Park

• Acute Heart Failure
• Research Article

Noninvasive low-level tragus stimulation attenuates inflammation and oxidative stress in acute heart failure

Tarun W. Dasari, Praloy Chakraborty, Peter Mukli, Khawaja Akhtar, Andriy Yabluchanskiy, Madeleine W. Cunningham, Anna Csiszar, Sunny S. Po

• Open Access
• COVID-19
• Research Article

EFAS/EAN survey on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on European clinical autonomic education and research

Alessandra Fanciulli, Magdalena Krbot Skorić, Fabian Leys, Diogo Reis Carneiro, Nicole Campese, Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura, Jennifer Camaradou, Giacomo Chiaro, Pietro Cortelli, Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Roberta Granata, Pietro Guaraldi, Raimund Helbok, Max J. Hilz, Valeria Iodice, Jens Jordan, Evert C. A. Kaal, Anita Kamondi, Anne Pavy Le Traon, Isabel Rocha, Johann Sellner, Jean Michel Senard, Astrid Terkelsen, Gregor K. Wenning, Elena Moro, Thomas Berger, Roland D. Thijs, Walter Struhal, Mario Habek, Ivan Adamec, Arnaud Aerts, Leo L. R. Canta, Robert Shane Delamont, Frederik de Lange, Francesca Del Sorbo, Grazia Devigili, Rita Di Leo, Trang Dinh, Jacques-Olivier Fortrat, Janne Gierthmühlen, Martin Hemels, Julia Köhn, Thomas Krøigård, Axel Lipp, Andrea Maier, Lucio Marinelli, Anna Mazzeo, Ivan Milenkovic, Maciej Motyl, Maria Grazia Natali Sora, Judith Navarro-Otano, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Mario Oliveira, Petter Moe Omland, Giuseppe Pelliccioni, Yann Pereon, Roland Josef Resch, Camilla Rocchi, Frederic Roche, Joost Rutten, Beatriz Tijero-Merino, Marcin Tutaj, A. M. H. G. van der Heijden-Montfroy, Bas J. A. van Hoeve, Narender van Orshoven, Ruihao Wang, Werner J. Z’Graggen

• Review Article

Quantification of dynamic cerebral autoregulation: welcome to the jungle!

Patrice Brassard, Marc-Antoine Roy, Joel S. Burma, Lawrence Labrecque, Jonathan D. Smirl

• Vasovagal Syncope
• REVIEW

Serotonin reuptake inhibition for the prevention of vasovagal syncope: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Priya Raj, Lucy Lei, Panagiota Flevaris, Satish Raj, Robert Sheldon

• Open Access
• Review Article

Day and night heart rate variability using 24-h ECG recordings: a systematic review with meta-analysis using a gender lens

Beatrice De Maria, Monica Parati, Laura Adelaide Dalla Vecchia, Maria Teresa La Rovere

• Peripheral Nervous System Disease
• Review Article

Assessment of comorbid symptoms in pediatric autonomic dysfunction

Sally E. Tarbell, Erin L. Olufs, Philip R. Fischer, Gisela Chelimsky, Mohammed T. Numan, Marvin Medow, Hasan Abdallah, Shelley Ahrens, Jeffrey R. Boris, Ian J. Butler, Thomas C. Chelimsky, Craig Coleby, John E. Fortunato, Raewyn Gavin, Janice Gilden, Renato Gonik, Kelsey Klaas, Lauren Marsillio, Erin Marriott, Laura A. Pace, Paul Pianosi, Pippa Simpson, Julian Stewart, Natalie Van Waning, Debra E. Weese-Mayer

• REVIEW ARTICLE

The effects of oral contraceptives on resting autonomic function and the autonomic response to physiological stressors: a systematic review

T. J. Pereira, J. Bouakkar, H. Johnston, M. Pakosh, J. D. Drake, H. Edgell

• Vasovagal Syncope
• Viewpoint

Engaging patients in the management of orthostatic intolerance

Juan Idiaquez, Juan Carlos Casar, Juan Francisco Idiaquez Rios, Italo Biaggioni

• Tachyarrythmia
• Letter to the Editor

Standing tests lack reliability to diagnose all adolescents who have postural tachycardia syndrome

Julian M. Stewart, Paul Visintainer, Marvin S. Medow

• Letter to the Editor

Mortality risk factors in newly diagnosed diabetic cardiac autonomic neuropathy

Bruce A. Chase, Sylwia Pocica, Roberta Frigerio, Katerina Markopoulou, Demetrius M. Maraganore, Navamon Aunaetitrakul, Alexander Epshteyn, Alexandru C. Barboi

• CSF Drainage
• Letter to the Editor

Cardioautonomic control in pregnant individuals with advanced maternal age

Matthew J. Gervais, Christy-Lynn M. Cooke, Sandra T. Davidge, Gyan Bains, Margie H. Davenport, Craig D. Steinback

• Coma
• Letter to the Editor

Clinical signs of the transition of syncope into hypoxic coma: a case report

J. Gert van Dijk, Ineke A. van Rossum, Jaap I. van Waning, Sjoerd W. Westra, Roland D. Thijs

• Containing
• Letter to the Editor

Inhalation of THC-containing cannabis selectively diminishes cardiac autonomic function in humans

Massimo Nardone, Christian P. Cheung, Ryleigh E. Baker, Kathryn Pfundt, Jordan B. Lee, Jamie F. Burr, Philip J. Millar

• Meeting Abstract

Abstracts of the 24th Congress of the European Federation of Autonomic Societies October 5–7, 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia