Yourheartrate is a measure of how fast your heart beats and is also an important indicator of good health. Your doctor will always make it a point to measure your heart rate whenever you visit him for your routine health checkup or any health-related problem. While the heart rate is rout...
What is normal heart rate variability (HRV) range? See how HRV changes by age and gender and calculate your normative HRV scores.
For example, heart rates are usually normally distributed. But suppose, unknown to you, the data has the resting heart rate for two groups: athletes and inactive people. You might get a bimodal distribution like the one below.Figure 6: Non-normal, bimodal distribution...
To guide individuals on this health journey, the American Heart Association has crafted a detailed blood pressure chart. This chart is prepared after referring to multiple clinical and non-clinical studies. Notably, the chart refers to a 2018 study published by Muntner et al., published in the ...
Normal vital signs are typically associated with improved outcomes in trauma patients. Whether this association is true for geriatric patients is unclear.A Level 1 trauma center retrospective chart review of vital signs on presentation (heart rate [HR] and blood pressure) in young (aged 17-35 yea...
measuring cholesterol levels helps to identify one of the risks of heart disease. These screening tests are performed on people who may show no symptoms of heart disease, as a tool for the physician to detect a potentially harmful and evolving condition. In order for screening tests to be the...
The aorta contains numerous cell types that contribute to vascular inflammation and thus the progression of aortic diseases. However, the heterogeneity and cellular composition of the ascending aorta in the setting of a high-fat diet (HFD) have not been
Two groups of male Wistar rats (250–300 g) (Charles River, Lecco, Italy) (each consisting of 3 animals) were used throughout: namely, normal rats (referred to as N) and fenofibrate-treated rats (referred to as Fe). For 10 days, Fe rats were treated orally once a day at a dose ...
Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of Enrolled Patients According to FEF25-75% z-Score Variables Total Normal FEF25-75% Low FEF25-75%* P-value (n=307) (n=216) (n=91) Male Mean age (years) Height (cm) Weight (kg) BMI (kg/m2) 145 (47.2%) 61.4±10.5 160.7±8.7 62.2±9.4 24.0±...
Baseline (weight, temperature and heart rate) and haemodynamic variables (ICP, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and CPP) were recorded at the different stages of the experiment (Fig.1). A non-invasive blood pressure measuring device (Harvard Apparatus, PanLab) and an intracranial catheter (Camino In...