Physiological Assessment

Physiological Assessment of Male Alcoholism

In 100 consecutive male inpatients with alcohol dependence and an equal number of age, sex, occupation and regional background matched controls, the value ofgamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and serum triglycerides were statistically significantly raised among alcoholics ...

Physiological effects of emotion: assessment via hypnosis.

Assessment of the physiological effects of physical and emotional stress has been hampered by a lack of suitable laboratory techniques. Since hypnosis can be used safely to induce specific emotional states of considerable intensity, we studied the effect on distal colonic motility of three hypnotically induced emotions (excitement, anger, and happiness) in 18 patients aged 20-48 years with irri...

Physiological Nondimensional Indices in Medical Assessment: For Quantifying Physiological Systems and Analysing Medical Tests’ Data

Aging and assessment of physiological strain during exercise-heat stress.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the physiological strain index (PSI) for different age groups during exercise-heat stress (EHS). PSI was applied to three different databases. First, from young and middle-age men (21 +/- 2 and 46 +/- 5 yr, respectively) matched (n = 9 each, P > 0.05) for maximal aerobic power. Subjects were heat acclimated by daily treadmill walking for two 50-min bout...

Separating in vivo mechanical stimuli for postpneumonectomy compensation: physiological assessment.

Following right pneumonectomy (PNX), the remaining lung expands and its perfusion doubles. Tissue and microvascular mechanical stresses are putative stimuli for initiating compensatory lung growth and remodeling, but their relative contributions to overall compensation remain uncertain. To temporally isolate the stimuli related to post-PNX lung expansion (parenchyma deformation) from those rela...