Objective: To test the effect in normal human volunteers of transient systemic inflammation on the variability in time-series behaviors of widely divergent physiologic measures of the human inflammatory response.

Design: Prospective study of human volunteers who were tested on 2 consecutive days, a control day and a treatment day. Each participant served as his or her own control.

Setting: Critical care facility of a university medical center.

Subjects: Subjects were eight healthy human volunteers.

Interventions: Participant subjects were tested on both a baseline day with no intervention and on a treatment day when they received 4 ng/kg intravenous Escherichia coli endotoxin.

Measurements And Main Results: Continuous electrocardiographic recordings and serial blood sampling (performed every 5 mins) were used to create time-series of heart rate (R-R intervals), neutrophil function (phagocytosis), and plasma cortisol concentrations. For each primary measure, we recorded a significant increase in the regularity (decreased variability) of the functional measurement as assessed by the statistical entity, approximate entropy.

Conclusions: Increased regularity, or decreased variability, of organ functions is a generalized response to systemic inflammation that occurs in widely divergent systems during endotoxemia.

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