tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Mild autonomic dysfunction in primary Sjögren's syndrome: a controlled study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Mild autonomic dysfunction in primary Sjögren's syndrome: a controlled study. | Available online http content 10 2 R31 Research article Mild autonomic dysfunction in primary Sjogren s syndrome a controlled study Fin ZJ Cai1 Sue Lester1 2 Tim Lu1 Helen Keen1 Karyn Boundy3 Susanna M Proudman4 Anne Tonkin5 and Maureen Rischmueller1 5 Rheumatology Department The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woodville Road Woodville South 5011 Australia 2Hanson Institute Frome Road Adelaide 5000 Australia 3Neurology Department The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woodville Road Woodville South 5011 Australia 4Rheumatology Department The Royal Adelaide Hospital North Terrace Adelaide 5000 Australia 5School of Medicine University of Adelaide Frome Road Adelaide 5000 Australia Corresponding author Maureen Rischmueller Received 31 Oct 2007 Revisions requested 7 Jan 2008 Revisions received 20 Feb 2008 Accepted 7 Mar 2008 Published 7 Mar 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008 10 R31 doi ar2385 This article is online at http content 10 2 R31 2008 Cai et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction The aim of this study was to compare cardiovascular autonomic nervous system function in patients with primary Sjogren s syndrome pSS with that in control individuals and to correlate the findings with autonomic symptoms and the presence of exocrine secretory dysfunction. Methods Twenty-seven female patients with pSS and 25 control individuals completed the COMPASS Composite Autonomic Symptom Scale self-reported autonomic symptom questionnaire. Beat-to-beat heart rate and blood pressure data in response to five standard cardiovascular reflex tests were digitally recorded using a noninvasive finger pressure cuff and heart