Impaired cardiac autonomic control relates to disease severity in pulmonary hypertension
- 14 May 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 34 (4), 895-901
- https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00145708
Abstract
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results in chronic right heart failure, which is associated with an increase in sympathetic tone. This may adversely affect cardiac autonomic control. We investigated the changes in cardiac autonomic nervous activity in relation to disease severity in patients with PAH.Keywords
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