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Age-related disappearance of Mayer-like heart rate waves

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Healthy elderly subjects (≥65 years) did not show the prominent low frequency (0.07–0.09 Hz) heart rate oscillations (Mayer waves) recorded in young adults immediately following passive upright tilt. This difference may be related to altered autonomic function with physiologic aging.

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Avenue, 02215, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    W. R. Jarisch, J. J. Ferguson, R. P. Shannon, J. Y. Wei & A. L. Goldberger

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Supported in part by a grant form NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California (A.L. Goldberger).

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Jarisch, W.R., Ferguson, J.J., Shannon, R.P. et al. Age-related disappearance of Mayer-like heart rate waves. Experientia 43, 1207–1209 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01945526

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