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Article Dans Une Revue Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine Année : 2008

Cardiovascular autonomic control during short-term thermoneutral and cool head-out immersion.

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BACKGROUND: Moderately cold head-out water immersion stimulates both baro- and cold-receptors, and triggers complex and contradictory effects on the cardiovascular system and its autonomic nervous control. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of water immersion and cold on cardiovascular status and related autonomic nervous activity. METHODS: Hemodynamic variables and indexes of autonomic nervous activity (analysis of heart rate and blood pressure variability) were evaluated in 12 healthy subjects during 3 exposures of 20 min each in the upright position, i.e., in air (AIR, 24-25 degrees C), and during head-out water immersion at 35-36 degrees C (WIn) and 26-27 degrees C (WIc). RESULTS: Plasma noradrenaline, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and total peripheral resistances were reduced during WIn compared to AIR (263.9 +/- 39.4 vs. 492.5 +/- 35.7 pg x ml(-1), 116.5 +/- 3.7 and 65.4 +/- 1.7 mmHg vs. 140.8 +/- 4.7 and 89.8 +/- 2.8 mmHg, 14.1 +/- 1.0 vs. 16.3 +/- 0.9 mmHg x L(-1) x min, respectively) while they were increased during WIc (530.8 +/- 84.7 pg ml(-1), 148.0 +/- 7.0 mmHg, 80.8 +/- 3.0 mmHg, and 25.8 +/- 1.9 mmHg x L(-1) x min, respectively). The blood pressure variability was reduced to the same extent during WIc and Win compared to AIR. Heart rate decreased during WIn (67.8 +/- 2.7 vs. 81.2 +/- 2.7 bpm during AIR), in parallel with an increased cardiac parasympathetic activity. This pattern was strengthened during WIc (55.3 +/- 2.2 bpm). CONCLUSIONS: Thermoneutral WI lowered sympathetic activity and arterial tone, while moderate whole-body skin cooling triggered vascular sympathetic activation. Conversely, both WI and cold triggered cardiac parasympathetic activation, highlighting a complex autonomic control of the cardiovascular system.
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hal-00452058 , version 1 (01-02-2010)

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  • HAL Id : hal-00452058 , version 1
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Laurent Mourot, Malika Bouhaddi, Emmanuel Gandelin, Sylvie Cappelle, Gilles Dumoulin, et al.. Cardiovascular autonomic control during short-term thermoneutral and cool head-out immersion.. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 2008, 79 (1), pp.14-20. ⟨hal-00452058⟩

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