A newly developed microcomputer-based cardiovascular monitoring system is reliable and valid for recording physiological variables during stress tasks.
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Enables reliable stress-task monitoring in research settings; leaves open clinical adoption pending larger validation studies.
This paper describes the development of a digitized, real‐time, microcomputer‐based signal processing system which records the following variables: systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, pulse transit time, blood volume pulse, and R‐, S‐, and T‐wave amplitudes of EKG signals. Forty‐eight healthy subjects participated in a three‐task stress response study in order to gather initial data for evaluating the reliability and validity of this monitoring system. The three tasks represented replications of earlier studies: 1) reading aloud of a monotonous neutral text (Reading Only, RO); 2) mental arithmetic without vocalization (Arithmetic Quiet, AQ); and 3) mental arithmetic with vocalization (Arithmetic Aloud, AA). The findings provided support for the reliability and validity of the new monitoring system given that few data were lost, and resting values as well as differential task responses were found to be comparable with earlier data sets derived via similar experimental protocols.
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