From adaptation to maladaptation--an introduction to the spectrum of circulatory responses in health and disease.
The cardiovascular system can be described as a network of constantly oscillating physical, hormonal and neural feedback loops. They operate in a concerted fashion in order to provide the body with its daily needs. Inability to maintain cardiovascular homeostasis may be the result of relatively well-tolerated but repeated disturbances, or a single overwhelming event. The development of clinical cardiovascular disease may thus be viewed as failure to compensate for such alterations successfully.
Voipio-Pulkki
L M
LM
Turku University Central Hospital, Finland. liisa-maria.voipio-pulkki@utu.fi
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001775:Blood Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans