TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiac autonomic function and sensitivity to pain in postmenopausal women with angina and normal coronary arteries
AU - Lanza, Gaetano Antonio
AU - Pasceri, Vincenzo
AU - Colonna, Giuseppe
AU - Cucinelli, Francesco
AU - Fortini, Antonio
AU - Lanzone, Antonio
AU - Crea, Filippo
AU - Maseri, Attilio
PY - 1997/5/1
Y1 - 1997/5/1
N2 - An increased sensitivity to painful stimuli and an abnormal cardiac autonomic function have previously been reported in patients with angina and angiographically normal coronary arteries, a syndrome that mainly affects postmenopausal women. In this study we compared both general sensitivity to pain, by evaluating time to forearm ischemic pain (FIP) provoked by sphygmomanometer cuff inflation, and cardiac autonomic function, by measuring heart rate variability (HRV), and QT and QT(c) intervals on 24-hour Holter recordings, in 25 postmenopausal women with angina and normal coronary arteries and in 22 healthy postmenopausal women. Compared with controls, patients had a reproducible strikingly lower time to FIP (149 ± 121 vs 295 ± 158 seconds, p
AB - An increased sensitivity to painful stimuli and an abnormal cardiac autonomic function have previously been reported in patients with angina and angiographically normal coronary arteries, a syndrome that mainly affects postmenopausal women. In this study we compared both general sensitivity to pain, by evaluating time to forearm ischemic pain (FIP) provoked by sphygmomanometer cuff inflation, and cardiac autonomic function, by measuring heart rate variability (HRV), and QT and QT(c) intervals on 24-hour Holter recordings, in 25 postmenopausal women with angina and normal coronary arteries and in 22 healthy postmenopausal women. Compared with controls, patients had a reproducible strikingly lower time to FIP (149 ± 121 vs 295 ± 158 seconds, p
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00077-5
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00077-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 9164880
AN - SCOPUS:0030918110
VL - 79
SP - 1174
EP - 1179
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
SN - 0002-9149
IS - 9
ER -