Publications by authors named "S Vandeput"
An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is therefore to facilitate the identification of safe and effective apps for health care practitioners and patients to generate the most health benefit as well as guide payer coverage decisions. Nearly all developed countries are attempting to define policy frameworks to improve decision-making, patient care, and health outcomes in this context.
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- A study examines how partial gravity, like that on the Moon and Mars, affects the autonomic control of the cardiovascular system, which is important for future space missions.
- During parabolic flights, researchers monitored ECG and blood pressure to analyze how these metrics change in response to different gravity levels, revealing distinct cardiovascular responses for zero, lunar, and martian gravity.
- The findings indicate that heart rate and blood pressure increase with gravity, while their variability decreases, suggesting that more research is necessary to prepare for the physiological challenges astronauts may face on Mars.
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- The study examines how spaceflight affects cardiovascular control, focusing on heart rate modulation and its recovery after returning to Earth.
- Eight astronauts were monitored using 24-hour Holter ECG recordings before and after their missions on the International Space Station (ISS) to assess changes in heart rate variability (HRV) throughout day and night.
- Results showed that at 5 days postflight, there was a significant decrease in vagal modulation and an increase in sympathovagal balance, but these disturbances seemed to resolve by 30 days postflight.
Background: West syndrome is an age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy. Autonomic changes are increasingly being recognized in patients with epilepsy: cardiac autonomic function is mediated by sympathetic and parasympathetic efferent activity to the heart and can provide information on the functional state of the autonomic nervous system. The goal of the study is to evaluate the effect of an early epileptic encephalopathy on the autonomic nervous system by measuring heart rate variability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe goal of this study was to evaluate the changes in heart rate variability (HRV) parameters due to a specific physical, mental or combined load. More specifically, the difference in effect between mental load and physical activity is studied. In addition, the effect of the combined physical and mental demand on the HRV parameters was examined and compared with the changes during the single task.
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