Interoceptive pathways may be manipulated at various levels to develop interventions to
improve symptoms in a range of disorders. Primarily through the lens of the respiratory …

β-blockers are effective antihypertensive agents and, together with diuretics, have been the
cornerstone of pioneering studies showing their benefits on cardiovascular morbidity and …

Vitiligo is a T-cell mediated skin disorder characterized by progressive loss of skin color. In
individuals genetically predisposed to the disease, various triggers contribute to the initiation …

We tested the hypothesis that long-term caffeine intake prevents the development of insulin
resistance and hypertension in two pathological animal models: the high-fat (HF) and the …

Mindfulness meditation (MM) is a stress-reduction technique that may have real biological
effects on hemodynamics but has never previously been tested in chronic kidney disease …

Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have elevated sympathetic nervous
system reactivity and impaired sympathetic and cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) …

It has become widely accepted that insulin resistance and glucose hypermetabolism can be
linked to acute pathologies, such as burn injury, severe trauma, or sepsis. Severe burns can …

Elevated heart rate (HR) is a well-recognized but somewhat neglected risk factor among the
healthy population and various cardiovascular pathologies (1). High HR is fraught with a …

J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2011; 13: 917–924.© 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Blood
pressure (BP) characteristics, such as central aortic pressure and arterial stiffness …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by increased risk for developing
hypertension and cardiovascular disease. We recently showed that device-guided slow …