Cardiovascular Physiology

Cardiovascular Physiology

Introduction

Cardiovascular physiology is the study of the circulatory system. More specifically, it addresses the physiology of the heart ("cardio") and blood vessels ("vascular"). These subjects are sometimes addressed separately, under the names cardiac physiology and circulatory physiology.

Cardiovascular Physiology

The relationship between sitting BP and subsequent myocardial infarction was modified by orthostatic diastolic BP, even when standard coronary risk factors were adjusted for in multivariate analyses, the authors did not examine the contribution of variability in orthostatic BP change. Further, the Normative Aging Study sample was younger and less frail, which may explain in part the role of diastolic (rather ...