Circulatory Response to the Upright Posture
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 1990
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-8493-6518-8 (ISBN)
Description
This is the only up-to-date systematic review of normal human response to upright posture and lower body negative pressure (LBNP). It analyzes the key factors that influence postural tolerance, such as physical fitness, weightlessness, age, and sex. It also provides extensive details on the circulatory changes that have occurred during U.S. and Soviet manned space flights. The text is brilliantly illustrated with diagrams, tables, and comments on circulatory methods. Readers will discover some information which has never before been published. This one-of-a-kind volume also reviews the diagnosis and treatment of orthostatic hypotension-an extremely common orthostatic disorder. Circulatory Response to the Upright Posture is the first available literature since 1982 of human physiological and pathophysiological aspects of postural tolerance. A wide variety of readers will find this title interesting and of value. Circulatory physiologists, cardiologists, and everyone with an interest in exercise physiology, aging, space physiology, and environmental physiology will especially benefit from this writing.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Exercise Physiology, Circulatory Physiologists, Cardiologists.
Focuses on:
Illustrations
4 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 22 s/w Tabellen
4 Halftones, black and white; 22 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8493-6518-8 (9780849365188)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
GENERAL RESPONSE TO ORTHOSTATIC STRESS. The Upright Posture in the Human-General. Pressure-Volume-Flow Relations in the Standing Position. Methods for Study of Hemodynamic Changes During Orthostasis. Blood Volume Displacement During Head-Up Posture. Compensatory Responses to the Head-Up Posture. Mechanism of Circulatory Response to Orthostasis. Effects of Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP). Prolonged Orthostatic Stress and Fainting. Variability in Orthostatic Stress Responses. PHYSICAL FITNESS AND ORTHOSTATIC TOLERANCE. Research Findings Which Suggest That Orthostatic Tolerance May Not Be Influenced by Aerobic Fitness. Research Findings Which Suggest That Orthostatic Tolerance May Be Influenced by Aerobic Fitness. Effects of Aerobic Fitness on Physical, Neural, and Hormonal Factors Involved in Blood Pressure Homeostasis During Orthostatic Stress. WEIGHTLESSNESS AND RESPONSE TO ORTHOSTATIC STRESS. Overview of U.S. and Soviet Human Space Flights Through May 1989. Physiological Responses to Space Flight and Simulated Weightlessness. AGE AND THE RESPONSE TO ORTHOSTATIC STRESS. General Circulatory Changes with Age. Orthostatic Cardiovascular Response. Mechanism of Aging Response to Orthostasis. Factors Affecting Postural Tolerance in the Elderly. SEX DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE TO ORTHOSTATIC AND OTHER STRESSES. Cardiovascular Physiology of Women. Cardiovascular Disease in Women. Women's Responses to Exercise and Nonorthostatic Stresses. Women's Responses to "Orthostatic" Stresses. ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION. Definition and Classification of Orthostatic Hypotension. Causes. Evaluation. Therapy. 200 pp., 7x10, 1990, ISBN 0-8493-6518-X.