Vagal Nerve Activity and Short-Term Clinical Outcomes after Stroke: What Is Left May Not Be Right
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
Measures
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Relationship between Stroke Severity and Study Variables
3.3. Does Vagal Activity Moderate Relations between Patient Variables and NIHSS Score?
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
SDNN | Standard Deviation of NN intervals |
RMSSD | Root Mean Square of Successive Differences between normal heartbeats |
NIHSS | National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale |
CRP | C-Reactive Protein |
HRV | Heart-Rate Variability |
rTMS | repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation |
HR | Heart Rate |
LOS | Long of Stay |
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Variable | n = 39 | n = 48 | ||
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Left-Stroke | Right-Stroke | |||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
Age | 68.33 | (12.91) | 63.90 | (11.69) ! |
NIHSS | 10.59 | (6.86) | 7.60 | (4.66) * |
Log-CRP | 0.64 | (0.49) | 0.78 | (0.42) |
Log-length of stay | 0.90 | (0.48) | 0.76 | (0.44) |
Log-SDNN | 1.43 | (0.35) | 1.51 | (0.43) |
Variable | Low HRV | High HRV | ||||||
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Left-Stroke | Right-Stroke | Left-Stroke | Right-Stroke | |||||
Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
NIHSS | 10.90 | 7.47 | 6.46 | 4.69 * | 10.22 | 6.27 | 8.75 | 4.43 |
Log-CRP | 0.58 | 0.54 | 0.86 | 0.39 * | 0.72 | 0.42 | 0.70 | 0.44 |
Log-length of stay | 0.84 | 0.48 | 0.63 | 0.44 | 0.98 | 0.48 | 0.89 | 0.42 |
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Badarny, S.; Abu Ayash, A.; Keigler, G.; Ryder, C.H.; Gidron, Y. Vagal Nerve Activity and Short-Term Clinical Outcomes after Stroke: What Is Left May Not Be Right. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 2446. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12072446
Badarny S, Abu Ayash A, Keigler G, Ryder CH, Gidron Y. Vagal Nerve Activity and Short-Term Clinical Outcomes after Stroke: What Is Left May Not Be Right. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023; 12(7):2446. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12072446
Chicago/Turabian StyleBadarny, Samih, Amal Abu Ayash, Galina Keigler, Chen Hanna Ryder, and Yori Gidron. 2023. "Vagal Nerve Activity and Short-Term Clinical Outcomes after Stroke: What Is Left May Not Be Right" Journal of Clinical Medicine 12, no. 7: 2446. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12072446