ABSTRACT
A psychological survey (MMPI, Wolff, Rosenzweig, Spielberger, Eysenck tests) of 70 adolescents with family history of coronary heart disease established the following personality traits in them: activity, leadership inclinations, extroversion, impulsiveness, heteroaggressiveness coupled with inner strain, anxiety. The anxiety, heteroaggression, extroversion correlated with atherogenic changes in lipoprotein spectrum.
Subject(s)
Lipoproteins/blood , Myocardial Ischemia/blood , Myocardial Ischemia/psychology , Adolescent , Apolipoproteins/blood , Arteriosclerosis/blood , Arteriosclerosis/psychology , Disease Susceptibility , Female , Humans , Interview, Psychological , Male , Personality , Psychological Tests , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Heart rate histograms were analyzed during 24-hour Holter monitoring in patients with cardiac rhythm and conduction disturbances. The profiles of histograms in the most common cardiac arrhythmias: extrasystole, chronic supraventricular reentry tachycardia, atrioventricular block, sinus tachycardia, sick sinus syndrome and those in patients with implantable pacemakers were shown. Approaches to analyzing histograms were defined in Holter monitoring, the histographic analysis was demonstrated to be of value in the comprehensive evaluation of Holter monitoring findings.
Subject(s)
Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology , Electrocardiography, Ambulatory , Heart Failure/physiopathology , Heart Rate , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Middle Aged , Pacemaker, ArtificialABSTRACT
24-hour Holter monitoring of 60 healthy children aged 3 to 15 years provided criteria for assessing the circadian heart rate (HR) variations as a measure of alterations occurred in autonomic heart rhythm control. Specific HR dynamics during their sleep is described, which involves changes in steady-state rhythm and higher dispersion periods associated with the alternation of slow and fast sleep phases. Sex- and age-related HR features are defined during 24-hour monitoring.
