Cardiac autonomic control in individuals with Down syndrome

Styliani Goulopoulou; Tracy Baynard; Scott Collier; Ifigenia Giannopoulou; Arturo Figueroa; Michael Beets; Kenneth Pitetti; Bo Fernhall

Cardiac autonomic control in individuals with Down syndrome

Styliani Goulopoulou, Tracy Baynard, Scott Collier, Ifigenia Giannopoulou, Arturo Figueroa, Michael Beets, Kenneth Pitetti, Bo Fernhall

University of Brighton

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Our goal in this study was to compare cardiac autonomic control at rest between 50 individuals with Down syndrome and 24 control participants without disabilities. Resting autonomic function was assessed using analysis of heart rate variability. Participants with Down syndrome had reduced total heart rate variability, which indicates possible autonomic dysfunction in this population. Their VO2 peak and BMI were not significantly correlated with resting cardiac autonomic control. This may suggest that fitness level and obesity differentially affect cardiac autonomic control in persons with Down syndrome compared to their healthy, nondisabled peers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	27-34
Number of pages	8
Journal	American Journal on Mental Retardation
Volume	111
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2006

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