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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Abnormalities in Cutaneous Microcirculation in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Chronic Insomnia Disorder.

Sebastian Yu, Chung-Yao Hsu, Hung-Yi Chuang, Chen-Cheng Yang, Chiou-Lian Lai, Hsin-Su Yu

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sebastian YuDepartment of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-2955-458X
Chung-Yao HsuDepartment of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.
Hung-Yi ChuangDepartment of Public Health and Environmental and Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-8321-8720
Chen-Cheng YangDepartment of Occupational Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-6361-3854
Chiou-Lian LaiDepartment of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5522-8019
Hsin-Su YuGraduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807378, Taiwan.
Kaohsiung Medical University · TW

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST 106-3111-Y-043-001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impaired sympathetic response is frequently observed in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). On the other hand, chronic insomnia disorder (CID) is also often accompanied by activation of sympathetic nerves. Considering that cutaneous microcirculation reflects sympathetic tone, we hypothesized that baseline cutaneous microcirculation in fingers, as detected by laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), differs among patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), AD, and CID. As light therapy is one of the adjunctive treatments for AD and CID, we designed a randomized controlled cross-over trial of light therapy through eyes for 12 weeks with red light as treatment and green light as control limb, and examined if light therapy has an impact on cutaneous microcirculation. Before light therapy, patients with AD had significantly lower baseline cutaneous perfusion than those with CID in left and right first to fourth fingers. After red light therapy, however, cutaneous perfusion of fingers in CID patients significantly decreased (right fingers, before vs. after = 227.25 ± 62.00 vs. 162.00 ± 49.34,

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autonomiclaser Doppler flowmetrymicroangiopathyparasympatheticperfusionsympathetic

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