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8726098

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-11-22
pubmed:abstractText
Standardized heart rate analyses were performed in 60 drug-free patients with alcohol dependence, who were admitted consecutively to a psychiatric department, and in 60 healthy normal matched subjects. The procedure included time and frequency derived measurements of heart rate variability (HRV). The investigations were carried out 3 weeks after admission and treatment on a closed ward to avoid autonomic hyperexcitability during withdrawal or relapse. The patients showed a significantly increased heart rate (p < 0.05), a significant reduction in the coefficient of variation while resting (p < 0.01) and a significant decrease of the high frequency power of spectral analysis (p < 0.01) compared with the normal subjects. Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction was found in 12 of the patients, but in only one of the normal subjects (p < 0.01). The results indicated moderate parasympathetic (vagal) alteration in alcohol-dependent patients treated in a psychiatric department. This may have implications for psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacological treatment strategies and prognosis in such patients with alcohol dependence.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0959-9851
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
119-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Autonomic cardiac abnormalities in alcohol-dependent patients admitted to a psychiatric department.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article