Baroreflex Sensitivity (BRS) and OSA

BRS and CPAP

Sustained effect of continuous positive airway pressure on baroreflex sensitivity in congestive heart failure patients with obstructive sleep apnea (link)

Baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure variability Julien 2008 (pubmed)

1. The simultaneous recording of blood pressure (BP) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in conscious sinoaortic baroreceptor denervated rats has revealed that the sympathetic component of the baroreceptor reflex both limits the amplitude of slow BP fluctuations and generates a faster BP oscillation (approximately 0.4 Hz in rats), the so-called Mayer wave.