ArticleAmerican journal of hypertension2014
Acute effects of a mixed meal on arterial stiffness and central hemodynamics in healthy adults.
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- The effect of oral glucose tolerance testing on changes in arterial stiffness and blood pressure in elderly women with hypertension and relationships between the stage of diabetes and physical fitness levels.Physical activity and nutrition · 2020Article
- Self-reported sleep quality is associated with central hemodynamics in healthy individuals.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2020Article
- A Protein/Lipid Preload Attenuates Glucose-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction in Individuals with Abnormal Glucose Tolerance.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Acute Changes in Carotid-Femoral Pulse-Wave Velocity Are Tracked by Heart-Femoral Pulse-Wave Velocity.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2020Article
- The Effects of Nut Consumption on Vascular Function.Nutrients · 2019Review
- Resting sympathetic activity is associated with the sympathetically mediated component of energy expenditure following a meal.Physiological reports · 2017Article
- Ingesting a small amount of beer reduces arterial stiffness in healthy humans.Physiological reports · 2017Article
- Influence of sympathetic nerve activity on aortic hemodynamics and pulse wave velocity in women.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundElevated central pressures and arterial stiffness are associated with increased peripheral resistance and higher sympathetic nervous system activity. Additionally, consumption of a meal is known to be sympathoexcitatory. However, the acute effects of a meal on aortic wave reflection and stiffness are unknown. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that aortic wave reflection and stiffness would increase after a meal.
methodsWe examined these effects using high-fidelity radial arterial pressure waveforms and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity measured noninvasively by applanation tonometry before and 60 and 180 minutes after ingestion of a liquid mixed meal (Ensure; 40% of daily energy expenditure) in 17 healthy adults (9 men/8 women; aged 29 ± 2 years). Additionally, we measured sympathetic activity by microneurography at baseline and up to 60 minutes after the meal.
resultsAlthough sympathetic activity increased after the meal, both peripheral and central pressures were reduced at 180 minutes from baseline (all P < 0.05). Contrary to our hypothesis, augmentation index (14% ± 3% vs. 2% ± 3% vs. 8% ± 3%), augmentation index normalized for heart rate (8% ± 3% vs. -3% ± 3% vs. 3% ± 3%), augmented pressure (5 ± 1 mm Hg vs. 1 ± 1 mm Hg vs. 3 ± 1 mm Hg), and pulse wave velocity (7.1 ± 0.2 m/s vs. 6.7 ± 0.2 m/s vs. 6.7 ± 0.1 m/s) were substantially reduced at 60 and 180 minutes after the meal (all P < 0.05).
conclusionsTaken together, our results suggest that a liquid mixed meal acutely decreases central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness in healthy adults, which may be a result of meal-related increases in insulin and/or visceral vasodilation.
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