Effects of long-term exercise on arrhythmogenesis in aged hypertensive rats

• Published in: Computers in biology and medicine Vol. 102; pp. 390 - 395
• Main Authors: Sung, Yen-Ling, Wu, Chih-En, Syu, Jhen-Yang, Kuo, Terry B.J., Li, Jai-Yi, Chen, Chieh-Wen, Weng, Ching-Hui, Hsu, Wei-Hsuan, Chen, Shih-Ann, Hu, Yu-Feng, Lin, Shien-Fong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2018; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Action potential; Arrhythmia; Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac arrhythmia; EKG; Electrocardiography; Exercise; Experiments; Fibrillation; Fitness training programs; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Hypertension; Internal Medicine; Other; Physical activity; Physical training; Rats; Restitution; Rodents; Software; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Tachycardia; Vagus nerve; Ventricle; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia; United States > US; Ventricular tachycardia; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Exercise; Heart rate variability

Chronic hypertension is a multifactorial disease that is highly associated with cardiovascular disorders. Physical activity, such as long-term exercise, is advocated as a treatment for hypertension, but the responses of different age groups to long-term exercise are unknown. We used aged spontaneous...