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ArticleJournal of human hypertension2015

Spectral analyses of systolic blood pressure and heart rate variability and their association with cognitive performance in elderly hypertensive subjects.

W B Santos, J M D Matoso, M Maltez, T Gonçalves, M Casanova, I F H Moreira, R A Lourenço, W D Monteiro, P T V Farinatti, P P Soares and 3 more

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Article in Journal of human hypertension, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

W B SantosDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
J M D MatosoDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M MaltezPhysical Activity and Health Promotion Laboratory, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
T GonçalvesDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M CasanovaDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
I F H MoreiraDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
R A LourençoDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
W D MonteiroPhysical Activity and Health Promotion Laboratory, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
P T V FarinattiPhysical Activity and Health Promotion Laboratory, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
P P SoaresDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
W OigmanDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M F T NevesDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
M L G CorreiaDepartment of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro · BRUniversidade Federal Fluminense · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systolic hypertension is associated with cognitive decline in the elderly. Altered blood pressure (BP) variability is a possible mechanism of reduced cognitive performance in elderly hypertensives. We hypothesized that altered beat-to-beat systolic BP variability is associated with reduced global cognitive performance in elderly hypertensive subjects. In exploratory analyses, we also studied the correlation between diverse discrete cognitive domains and indices of systolic BP and heart rate variability. Disproving our initial hypothesis, we have shown that hypertension and low education, but not indices of systolic BP and heart rate variability, were independent predictors of lower global cognitive performance. However, exploratory analyses showed that the systolic BP variability in semi-upright position was an independent predictor of matrix reasoning (B = 0.08 ± .03, P-value = 0.005), whereas heart rate variability in semi-upright position was an independent predictor of the executive function score (B = -6.36 ± 2.55, P-value = 0.02). We conclude that myogenic vascular and sympathetic modulation of systolic BP do not contribute to reduced global cognitive performance in treated hypertensive subjects. Nevertheless, our results suggest that both systolic BP and heart rate variability might be associated with modulation of frontal lobe cognitive domains, such as executive function and matrix reasoning.

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AgedBlood PressureCognitionFemaleHeart RateHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedPosture

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