Erectile dysfunction and heart rate recovery. Is it autonomic nervous system?

Erectile dysfunction and heart rate recovery. Is it autonomic nervous system?

Heart Rate Variability, Heart Rate Recovery, and Heart Rate Turbulence Represent Different Components of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System

Heart rate variability and heart rate in healthy volunteers. Is the female autonomic nervous system cardioprotective?

AIMS Heart rate variability has been proposed as an indicator of cardiovascular health. Since women have a lower cardiovascular risk, we hypothesized that there are gender differences in autonomic modulation. METHODS AND RESULTS In 276 healthy subjects (135 women, 141 men) between 18 and 71 years of age, 24 h heart rate and heart rate variability were determined. All heart rate variability pa...

Assessment of Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System Involvement in Systemic Sclerosis via Exercise Heart Rate Recovery

OBJECTIVE To assess exercise heart rate recovery (HRR) indices in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) for an assessment of their cardiac autonomic function. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-five patients with diffuse or limited SSc and 35 healthy controls were enrolled. All subjects underwent exercise testing and transthoracic echocardiography. The HRR indices were calculated by subtracting the...

Heart rate recovery, cardiac rehabilitation, and erectile dysfunction in males with ischemic heart disease

OBJECTIVE Heart rate recovery (HRR) is a recognised marker used in clinical practice for assessing the risk of sudden cardiac death. Physical exercise leads to an improvement in HRR and has a proven beneficial effect on erection quality (EQ) related to the activity of the autonomic nervous system in men with ischaemic heart disease (IHD). This paper evaluates the relationship between HRR and EQ...