Cutaneous sensibility and peripheral nerve function in patients with unmedicated essential hypertension
Louisa Edwards
Christopher Ring
David McIntyre
John B. Winer
Una Martin
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https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Cutaneous_sensibility_and_peripheral_nerve_function_in_patients_with_unmedicated_essential_hypertension/9629564
Sensorimotor deficits in patients with essential hypertension may be due to impaired nerve function. Cutaneous
sensory thresholds, median nerve sensory and motor conduction velocities, andmedian nerve sensory action potential
amplitudes were assessed in 30 patients with unmedicated essential hypertension and 29 normotensives. Cutaneous
sensory thresholds were higher and sensory action potential amplitudes smaller in hypertensives than normotensives
whereas sensory and motor nerve conduction velocities did not differ between groups. These data suggest that
hypertension may reduce the number of active sensory nerve fibers without affecting myelination. Sensory action
potential amplitudes were inversely related to cutaneous sensory thresholds, suggesting that subclinical axonal neuropathy
of sensory afferents may help account for perceptual deficits that characterize hypertension.
2014-07-29 13:03:52
Cutaneous sensory thresholds
Essential hypertension
Median nerve
Nerve conduction velocity
Sensory action potential amplitudes
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