Mecanismos de variabilidade de pressão arterial batimento-a-batimento e desempenho cognitivo em idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Wellington Bruno
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8585
• topic: Variability; Blood pressure; Heart Rate; Mechanisms; Hypertension; Cognition; Elderly; Variabilidade; Pressão arterial; Frequência cardíaca; Mecanismos; Cognição; Hipertensão; Idoso; Variabilidade do batimento cardíaco; Pressão arterial; Cognição; Hipertensão; Idosos; Frequência cardíaca; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

The objective of this study was to investigate the mechanisms of variability of the systolic beat-to-beat blood pressure in elderly individuals through spectral analysis of low frequency components of systolic blood pressure variability, measures of pulse wave velocity and augmentation pressure analysis. In addition, we investigated the association of blood pressure variability with carotid intima-media thickness. Also, we investigated the association between beat-to-beat blood pressure and heart rate variability with cognitive performance in the sample. Arterial pressures were measured by photoplethysmography in supine position and during passive semi-upright. The spectra of variability of systolic blood pressure values were subsequently analyzed in the laboratory. Measures of pulse wave velocity, the reflected wave (augmentation pressure) and ultrasonography for carotid intima-media thickness measurements were performed. The low frequency component of systolic blood pressure variability in the supine and semi-upright position was an independent positive predictor of variability in multiple linear regression models with pulse wave velocity and with augmentation pressure; the low frequency component of the baroreflex in supine position was a negative predictor of variability in the same models. It was not demonstrated association of systolic blood pressure variability with intima-media thickness. It was not demonstrated association of beat-to-beat systolic blood pressure variability or heart rate with global cognitive performance in elderly apparently healthy in regular treatment of hypertension. It was demonstrated a positive and independente association of the low-frequency component of the spectrum of blood pressure and heart rate of variability with cognitive domains related to the frontal lobe (matrix reasoning and executive function score). In conclusion, sympathetic modulation of vascular tone, arterial vascular myogenic function, and baroreflex deregulation are predictors of beat-to-beat systolic blood pressure variability, unlike arterial stiffness and augmentation pressure. While blood pressure variability shows no association with carotid intima-media thickness or global cognitive performance in apparently healthy normotensive and hypertensive elderly under anti-hypertensive treatment. The heart rate variability showed no correlation with global cognitive performance in this age group, but presented positive and independent association with executive function score. Sympathetic modulation of arterial vascular tone and myogenic function also exhibited positive and independent association with matrix reasoning.