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Age-related disappearance of Mayer-like heart rate waves
W R Jarisch1, J J Ferguson, R P Shannon
1Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Experientia
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
Healthy elderly subjects (greater than or equal to 65 years) did not show the prominent low frequency (0.07-0.09 Hz) heart rate oscillations (Mayer waves) recorded in young adults immediately following passive upright tilt. This difference may be related to altered autonomic function with physiologic aging.