An update on: cardiovascular and respiratory changes during sleep in normal and hypertensive subjects

sleep in normal and hypertensive subjects; the significant reduction of total peripheral resistance as a major deter- In 1969, Bristow, Honour, Pickering and Sleight 1 minant of nocturnal arterial pressure reduction in the provided us with one of the very first descriptions of the absence of significant changes in cardiac output; the cardiovascular and respiratory changes occurring during identification of changes in baroreflex sensitivity as well as sleep in normal and hypertensive subjects. The study was a resetting of the arterial baroreflex during sleep in carried out in 19 subjects, eight with normal and ten with hypertensives. high blood pressure, while one subject was suffering from