CIRCULATORY DYNAMICS DURING COLD PRESSOR TEST
CIRCULATORY DYNAMICS DURING COLD PRESSOR TEST
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DOI:
10.1016/0002-9149(65)90007-x
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
ROGOW, E
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作者:
GREENE, MA;BOLTAX, AJ;ROGOW, E
Circulatory dynamics during the cold pressor test were studied in 10 normotensive and 8 hypertensive patients. Measurements were made before and during 5 minutes of immersion of the hand in ice water. The initial 60 seconds of the test represented vascular reactivity to the cold stimulus, and the hemodynamics at 5 minutes of hand immersion represented the degree of circulatory adaptation to this stimulus.Most patients responded to the cold pressor test with statistically significant increases in blood pressure. However, only 50 per cent of hypertensive patients demonstrated vascular hyperreactivity, i.e., a rise in blood pressure of 20/20 mm. Hg or more. In addition, the pressor responses were quantitatively similar in the hypertensive and normotensive groups. These data indicate that the pressor reaction to the cold stimulus is not altered in hypertension.The cold pressor test represents a widespread stimulation (neurogenic) of multiple components of the cardiovascular system, the quantitative and qualitative aspects of which are not predictable on a clinical basis and are similar in hypertensive and normotensive individuals. Major cardiodynamic changes during this stimulus, in addition to the pressor response, include increased peripheral arterial resistance, increased cardiac output due to increased heart rate, and increased pulmonary artery pressures.Cold adaptation, an almost universal occurrence, generally involves a gradual diminution in the pressor response, and the circulatory mechanisms responsible for it, to continued (cold) stimulation. The usefulness of this phenomenon in the study of the cardiovascular system in normal and hypertensive patients is negligible.