Aim: To estimate the value of the dosing Valsalva-Weber test (VWT) in the diagnosis of autonomic disorders in patients with vasovagal syncope (VVS).
Subjects And Methods: The dosing VWT using a specialized Task Force Monitor unit ("CNSystem", Austria) with synchronous noninvasive ECG and blood pressure (BP) monitoring was carried out in 30 patients (mean age 32 ± 14 years) with VVS and 12 healthy individuals (31 ± 7 years). The analysis of the test results encompassed the visual assessment of BP change curves and heart rate in different test phases and the calculation of pressure indices, Valsalva coefficient, arterial baroreflex sensitivity, and other parameters (a total of 26).
The paper raises the topical problem of the health status of adolescents aged 13-17 years (9-11-form pupils of a lyceum and 1-year students of an university) from economically good families. Despite high family incomes, the adolescents' health status remains to be relatively poor. As high as 7% of the pupils are apparently healthy.
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