Dysregulation of CO2-Driven Heart-Rate Chemoreflex Is Related Closely to Impaired CO2 Dynamic Vasomotor Reactivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients.
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ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Significant reduction of dynamic vasomotor reactivity (DVR) was recently reported in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) relative to age-matched controls. These results were obtained via a novel approach that utilizes data-based predictive dynamic models to quantify DVR. OBJECTIVE:Using the same methodological approach, we seek to quantify the dynamic effects of the CO2-driven chemoreflex and baroreflex upon heart-rate in order to examine their possible correlation with the observed DVR impairment in each MCI patient. METHODS:The employed approach utilizes time-series data to obtain subject-specific predictive input-output models of the dynamic effects of changes in arterial blood pressure and end-tidal CO2 (putative "inputs") upon cerebral blood flow velocity in large cerebral arteries, cortical tissue oxygenation, and heart-rate (putative "outputs"). RESULTS:There was significant dysregulation of CO2-driven heart-rate chemoreflex (p?=?0.0031), but not of baroreflex (p?=?0.5061), in MCI patients relative to age-matched controls. The model-based index of CO2-driven heart-rate chemoreflex gain (CRG) correlated significantly with the DVR index in large cerebral arteries (p?=?0.0146), but not with the DVR index in small/micro-cortical vessels (p?=?0.1066). This suggests that DVR impairment in small/micro-cortical vessels is not mainly due to CO2-driven heart-rate chemoreflex dysregulation, but to other factors (possibly dysfunction of neurovascular coupling). CONCLUSION:Improved delineation between MCI patients and controls is achieved by combining the DVR index for small/micro-cortical vessels with the CRG index (p?=?2×10-5). There is significant correlation (p?
SUBMITTER: Marmarelis VZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7369119 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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