• Adriana Sanches Garcia-Araújo, Pires Di LorenzoValéria AmorimVA, Ivana Gonçalves Labadessa, Soraia Pilon Jürgensen, Luciana Di Thommazo-Luporini, Cristiane Lubk Garbim, and Audrey Borghi-Silva.
• Physiotherapy Department, Universidade Federal de São Carlos , São Carlos SP , Brazil.
• J Asthma. 2015 Apr 1; 52 (3): 246-53.

ObjectiveTo compare the autonomic modulation of heart rate (HR) in asthmatic and healthy volunteers to correlate it with the forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1).MethodsTen healthy and 14 asthmatic volunteers were included in this cross-sectional study. The volunteers underwent a cardiopulmonary exercise test, spirometry and a register of both resting heart rate variability (HRV) in the supine and seated positions along with HRV during the respiratory sinus arrhythmia maneuver (M-RSA).ResultsAt rest in supine, asthmatic volunteers presented a higher HR (77.1 ± 9.9 vs. 68.7 ± 8.7 bpm), shorter interval between two R waves (R-Ri) (807.5 ± 107.2 vs. 887.5 ± 112.7 ms) when compared with the healthy volunteers, respectively. Moreover, in the frequency domain of HRV, there was increased low frequency (LF) index (50.4 ± 17.1 vs. 29.2 ± 11.1 n.u.) and decreased high frequency (HF) index (49.4 ± 17.1 vs. 70.7 ± 11.1 n.u.). During the M-RSA, the asthmatic presented higher HR (82.6 ± 10.0 vs. 72.4 ± 7.6 bpm) and lower values of R-Ri (746.4 ± 92.1 vs. 846.4 ± 81.4 ms) and approximate entropy (ApEn) (0.7 ± 0.0 vs. 0.8 ± 0.1). FEV1 was strongly correlated with the change of the continuous beat-to-beat variability of HR (SD2) index from the seated to the supine position (r = 0.78).ConclusionControlled asthma in adults appears to induce an increased sympathetic modulation and attenuated response to the postural changes and the M-RSA. Furthermore, there is a correlation between the airways' obstruction and HRV, especially during postural changes.

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