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Does the Mecholyl test measure autonomic lability compared to the Cold Pressor test?
Does the Mecholyl test measure autonomic lability compared to the Cold Pressor test?
The authors propose using the Mecholyl test as a measure of autonomic lability instead of the cold pressor test.
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Should not yet supplant cold pressor testing; hypothesis-generating for autonomic lability assessment.
The results obtained with the Cold Pressor test were considered by the authors to provide further, supporting, evidence that variations in sedation threshold are due, in part at least, to differences in autonomic responsiveness. Further investigation of the problem seemed justified, and in the next stage of the research it was decided to employ as a measure of autonomic lability the response to a drug rather than the cold water stressor.
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Wawman et al. (1963) studied this question.
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