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Do asthmatic children exhibit different autonomic physiological responses (heart rate and skin temperature) to problem-solving stimuli compared to nonasthmatic children?
Do asthmatic children exhibit different autonomic physiological responses (heart rate and skin temperature) to problem-solving stimuli compared to nonasthmatic children?
Asthmatic children exhibit altered autonomic responses, including significantly higher heart rates and skin temperatures, suggesting a potential malfunction of homeostatic mechanisms.
May signal autonomic dysregulation warranting monitoring in asthmatic children; leaves open causal mechanisms and intervention targets.
Physiological responses of 20 asthmatic and 10 nonasthmatic children to problemsolving stimuli demonstrated significantly higher heart rates and skin temperatures among the asthmatics. A high incidence of tachycardia in asthmatics was confirmed by analysis of ECG records of 352 chronically asthmatic children, ages 7–16, and a number of environmental factors were ruled out as causative agents of the high heart rate. Failure to obtain a normal regression line for the heart rate response of asthmatic children suggested a possible malfunction of homeostatic mechanisms in this group.
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William W. Hahn (1966) studied this question.
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