The effect of age on the cardiovascular responses to isometric exercise: a test of autonomic function.
Isometric exercise, promulgated as a test of autonomic function, has not been investigated in the elderly. Increasing age does not affect the cardiovascular responses to isometric exercise. Variability studies during fatiguing isometric exercise confirm that it is a valuable test of autonomic function in the elderly.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007537:Isometric Contraction; D009119:Muscle Contraction