Postexercise Heart Rate Recovery in Adults Born Preterm.

Objective: To evaluate postexercise heart rate recovery (HRR) in adults born preterm.

Study Design: We studied the association between preterm birth and postexercise HRR in 545 adults (267 women) at 23.3 years of age (range 19.

Cardiac Autonomic Function in Adults Born Preterm.

Objective: To evaluate cardiac autonomic function in adults born preterm.

Study Design: We studied the association between prematurity and cardiac autonomic function using heart rate variability measurements in 600 adults (mean age of 23.3 years) from a geographically based cohort in Northern Finland.

Ambulatory blood pressure and its variability in adults born preterm.

Adults born preterm have higher blood pressure (BP) than those born at term. Most studies have focused on preterm birth, and few have assessed BP variability, an independent risk factor of cardiovascular disease. We studied the association of preterm birth with 24-hour ambulatory BP, measured by an oscillometric device, in 42 young adults born early preterm (<34 weeks), 72 born late preterm (34-36 weeks), and 103 controls (≥37 weeks).