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J Appl Physiol 90: 1600-1605, 2001;
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Vol. 90, Issue 4, 1600-1605, April 2001

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Physiological and Genomic Consequences of Intermittent Hypoxia
Invited Review: Physiological consequences of intermittent hypoxia: systemic blood pressure

Eugene C. Fletcher

Division of Respiratory, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40292

One of the major manifestations of obstructive sleep apnea is profound and repeated hypoxia during sleep. Acute hypoxia leads to stimulation of the peripheral chemoreceptors, which in turn increases sympathetic outflow, acutely increasing blood pressure. The chronic effect of these repeated episodic or intermittent periods of hypoxia in humans is difficult to study because chronic cardiovascular changes may take many years to manifest. Rodents have been a tremendous source of information in short- and long-term studies of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. Recurrent short cycles of normoxia-hypoxia, when administered to rats for 35 days, allows examination of the chronic cardiovascular response to intermittent hypoxia patterned after the episodic desaturation seen in humans with sleep apnea. The result of this type of intermittent hypoxia in rats is a 10- to 14-mmHg increase in resting (unstimulated) mean blood pressure that lasts for several weeks after cessation of the daily cyclic hypoxia. Carotid body denervation, sympathetic nerve ablation, renal sympathectomy, adrenal medullectomy, and angiotensin II receptor blockade block the blood pressure increase. It appears that adrenergic and renin-angiotensin system overactivity contributes to the early chronic elevated blood pressure in rat intermittent hypoxia and perhaps to human hypertension associated with obstructive sleep apnea.

sleep apnea syndromes; anoxia; hypoxemia; hypertension; sympathetic nervous system; carotid chemoreceptors


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