April 28, 1988New England Journal of Medicine

Body Fat and the Activity of the Autonomic Nervous System

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Why the study?

Does body fat percentage correlate with autonomic nervous system activity in healthy men?

Population

56 healthy men with various percentages of body fat

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

HPHugh R. PetersonUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs MRMarylee RothschildAlbert Einstein College of Medicine CWClarice R. WeinbergUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Implication

Body fat may influence autonomic tone in healthy men; cross-sectional data leave open causality and clinical relevance.

Structured PICO

Does body fat percentage correlate with autonomic nervous system activity in healthy men?

Population

56 healthy men with various percentages of body fat

Outcome

Correlation between percentage of body fat and autonomic activity variables (variation in R-R interval after beta-adrenergic blockade, heart rate, plasma norepinephrine concentration, plasma epinephrine concentration, and pupillary latency period)surrogate

Increasing body fat percentage in healthy men is significantly associated with depressions in both sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic activity.

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Peterson et al. (1988) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69decbc5210a0977fce9595c https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198804283181701

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Body Fat and the Activity of the Autonomic Nervous System

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Body Fat and the Activity of the Autonomic Nervous System

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