ArticleWorld journal of clinical cases2022
Altered heart rate variability and pulse-wave velocity after spinal cord injury.
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- Peripheral Vascular Dysfunction Following Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
- Heart rate variability in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury during a single session of paired associative stimulation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Heart Rate Variability Applications in Medical Specialties: A Narrative Review.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Review
- Para table tennis improves psychological/mental and cardiovascular health in individuals with spinal cord injury.NeuroRehabilitation · 2024Article
- Autonomic modulation of neuroplasticity in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: insights from a narrative review.Frontiers in neurologyReview
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Abstract
backgroundHeart rate variability (HRV) and pulse-wave velocity (PWV), indicators of cardiac function, are altered in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), suggesting that autonomic cardiac function and arterial stiffness may underlie the high risk of cardiovascular complications in these patients. No study has simultaneously investigated HRV and PWV in the same patients.
aimTo evaluate cardiovascular complications in SCI patients by comparing HRV and PWV between patients with and without SCI.
methodsIn this cross-sectional pilot study, patients with (
resultsWe observed a significant difference between participants with and without SCI with respect to the standard deviation of all normal-to-normal intervals, square root of the mean sum of squared successive risk ratio interval differences, physical stress index, total power, very-low frequency, low frequency, high frequency, and arterial elasticity.
conclusionPatients with SCI have weaker sympathetic and parasympathetic activity as well as lower arterial elasticity compared to those without, suggesting that SCI may increase cardiac function loading.
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