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Cardiac rhythm parameters recorded in healthy children during the initial weeks of schoolwork immediately after the transition from kindergarten to the first grade of the elementary school or from the elementary school to the fifth grade of the middle school showed that their regulatory systems were stressed to different degrees, reflecting different costs of adaptation to environmental conditions. The most pronounced changes in these parameters were observed in the first graders: because of more significant stress (sometimes, overstress) of their regulatory mechanisms, in 70% of these children complete adaptation to new living conditions was associated with greater physiological costs. In the fifth graders, a similar situation was observed only in 25% of the children examined. The less pronounced physiological changes observed in 30% of the first graders and in 75% of the fifth graders can be related to the more mature state of their cardiac regulatory mechanisms, as well as to their greater adaptability to environmental conditions during the period examined.
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Poborskii, A.N. Cardiac Rhythm Regulation in Children during the Initial Period of School Education under Conditions of the North. Human Physiology 27, 581–584 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011964428050
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