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Autonomic nervous system dysregulation: breathing and heart rate perturbation during wakefulness in young girls with Rett syndrome.
Pediatric research - 1 Oct 2006
Weese-Mayer Debra E, Lieske Steven P, Boothby Christina M, Kenny Anna S, Bennett Heather L, Silvestri Jean M, Ramirez Jan-Marino
Abstract excerpt
This study characterizes cardiorespiratory dysregulation in young girls with MECP2 mutation-confirmed Rett syndrome (RS). Respiratory inductance plethysmography of chest/abdomen and ECG was obtained during daytime wakefulness in 47 girls with MECP2 mutation-confirmed RS and 47 age-, gender-, and ethnicity-matched controls (ages 2-7 y). An in-home breath-to-breath and beat-to-beat characterization was conducted...
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