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Observational studyJournal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics2021

The rhythm of a preterm neonate's life: ultradian oscillations of heart rate, body temperature and sleep cycles.

Gilbert Koch, Kerstin Jost, Sven M Schulzke, René Koch, Marc Pfister, Alexandre N Datta

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Observational study in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Coupling-dependent metabolic ultradian rhythms in confluent cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gilbert Koch *Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, Spitalstrasse 33, 4056, Basel, Switzerland. Gilbert.Koch@ukbb.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-9386-0506
Kerstin Jost *Department of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, Basel, Switzerland.
Sven M SchulzkeDepartment of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, Basel, Switzerland.
René Koch, Boxhorn, Luxembourg.
Marc Pfister *Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, Spitalstrasse 33, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.
Alexandre N Datta *Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine Department, University Children's Hospital Basel UKBB, Basel, Switzerland.
University Children’s Hospital Basel · CHUniversity of Luxembourg · LU

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 141206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objectives are to characterize oscillations of physiological functions such as heart rate and body temperature, as well as the sleep cycle from behavioral states in generally stable preterm neonates during the first 5 days of life. Heart rate, body temperature as well as behavioral states were collected during a daily 3-h observation interval in 65 preterm neonates within the first 5 days of life. Participants were born before 32 weeks of gestational age or had a birth weight below 1500 g; neonates with asphyxia, proven sepsis or malformation were excluded. In total 263 observation intervals were available. Heart rate and body temperature were analyzed with mathematical models in the context of non-linear mixed effects modeling, and the sleep cycles were characterized with signal processing methods. The average period length of an oscillation in this preterm neonate population was 159 min for heart rate, 290 min for body temperature, and the average sleep cycle duration was 19 min. Oscillation of physiological functions as well as sleep cycles can be characterized in very preterm neonates within the first few days of life. The observed parameters heart rate, body temperature and sleep are running in a seemingly uncorrelated pace at that stage of development. Knowledge about such oscillations may help to guide nursing and medical care in these neonates as they do not yet follow a circadian rhythm.

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Body TemperatureCircadian RhythmFemaleHeart RateHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureMaleProspective StudiesSleepChronological alignmentOscillationsPrematuritySleepUltradian rhythm

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