Open AccessCardiovascular response to acute cold stress in non-obese and obese healthy adults
Author(s) -
Simran Grewal,
TS Sekhon,
Lily Walia,
RS Gambhir
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ethiopian journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2413-7170
pISSN - 1029-1857
DOI - 10.4314/ejhs.v25i1.7
Subject(s) - cold pressor test , medicine , blood pressure , body mass index , sphygmomanometer , cardiology , diastole , analysis of variance , heart rate
Obesity is a global epidemic with important health care and financial implications. The cold pressor test (CPT) which is considered to be a sympathy-excitatory manoeuvre is a simple, noninvasive and validated test. The objective of this study was to assess and compare the cardiovascular response to cold pressor test in non-obese and obese healthy adults.
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