VALSALVA MANOEUVRE: AN ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC PARASYMPATHETIC ACTIVITY IN PREGNANCY

2016-06-30T17-57-56Z
Source: Journal Of Advance Researches In Biological Sciences (A Peer Reviewed Indexed Medical Journal)
Kochhar Sonia, Ummat Ashwani.
The present study was designed to assess the heart rate variability in the three trimesters of pregnancy. 100 subjects in the age group of 20- 40 years were taken up for the study, of these 25 were non-pregnant healthy females (control) and 75 were healthy pregnant females further divided into three groups of 25 each according to the three trimesters of pregnancy. Valsalva Ratio and Tachycardia ratio were calculated to assess the cardiac parasympathetic activity. It is concluded that there is significant increase in heart rate in the third trimester compared to non- pregnant healthy females (p


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