In most persons, blood pressure (BP) rises slowly during late sleep, increases rapidly upon
morning awakening and commencement of diurnal activity, exhibits two–morning and …

Disturbances in cardiovascular neural regulation, influencing both disease course and
survival, progress as heart failure worsens. Heart failure due to left ventricular systolic …

Conclusion Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are the most common life-
threatening and debilitating diseases in the industrialized world. However, the incidence …

causing the rib cage and abdomen to distort and move out of phase. In contrast, in central
events respiratory movements are absent or attenuated, but in phase. The reported …

While there is a developing understanding of the influence of sleep on cardiovascular
autonomic activity in humans, there remain unresolved issues. In particular, the effect of time …

Sleep is characterized by coordinated cortical and cardiac oscillations reflecting
communication between the central (CNS) and autonomic (ANS) nervous systems. Here, we …

The recent guidelines for cardiovascular prevention released by the American College of
Cardiology/American Heart Association (2019) state that counseling on sleep and sleep …

The arterial baroreflex contributes importantly to the short-term regulation of blood pressure
and cardiovascular variability. A number of factors (including reflex, humoral, behavioral …

To assess the separate contributions of the sleep and circadian systems to changes in
cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, 12 supine subjects participated in two 26 …

Although sleep and exercise may seem to be mediated by completely different physiological
mechanisms, there is growing evidence for clinically important relationships between these …