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J Appl Physiol 91: 561-568, 2001;
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Vol. 91, Issue 2, 561-568, August 2001

Cardiovascular responses to three simple, provocative tests of autonomic activity in sleeping infants

C. Harrington1,2, T. Kirjavainen3,4, A. Teng2, and C. E. Sullivan1,2

1 David Read Laboratory, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006; 2 Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick 2031, New South Wales, Australia; 3 University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014; and 4 University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland

Whereas defective cardiovascular autonomic control has been implicated in the sudden infant death syndrome, relatively little is known about the normal development of autonomic control, due to the inability to measure blood pressure in infants noninvasively. We studied 12 normal infants [age: 13 ± 2 (SD) wk] using a noninvasive method of continuous blood pressure recording and examined the cardiovascular responses to 45° head-up tilting, a modified cold face test, and a loud noise. In head-up tilting, in both slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep, all infants displayed a rapid biphasic heart rate response (mean increase of 16% and mean decrease of 21%) and blood pressure response (mean increase of 16% and mean decrease of 16%), with a return to pretest values within 20 s. Both ice and noise caused a less pronounced biphasic response. In conclusion, at 3 mo, infants show the adult pattern of response to postural challenge. The short latency of the response suggests that neural inputs, apart from baroreceptors, are involved in the initial phase of the response.

autonomic function; arousal; blood pressure variability


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