Investigators studied diagnostic and treatment pathways for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in a man with fluctuating blood pressure and several comorbidities. Considering neurogenic orthostatic ...

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

May 16, 2007 (Denver, CO) - Noninvasive markers of autonomic dysfunction, especially when combined with ECG criteria, are at least as predictive of sudden-death risk as positive electrophysiologic (EP ...

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is an established, effective treatment for malignant diseases of hemato- and lymphopoiesis. Nevertheless, recent progress in reducing ...

Correspondence to Dr Júlio Alejandro Henriques Costa, Faculty of Sports, University of Porto, Porto 4200-450, Portugal; jahdc{at}hotmail.com In some countries, most of the young adult female players ...

1 Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 2 University of Calgary Sport Medicine Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 3 ...

Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person’s kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health ...

Late in pregnancy, the human body carefully prepares fetuses for the rigors of life outside the protection of the womb. Levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, ramp up and spike during labor.

'In a low-risk group of babies born full-term, the autonomic nervous system and cortical systems appear to function well regardless of whether infants were exposed to labor prior to birth,' says Sarah ...

Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...