title: [Prospects for the assessment of cardiac rhythm variability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus].
abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are chronic autoimmune diseases associated with confirmed high risk of cardiovascular pathology. Most low-risk patients develop cardiovascular complications (CVC) with the involvement of traditional factors of limited diagnostic value which requires introduction of new efficacious methods for CVC prognostication. Reduced cardiac rhythm variability (CRV) along with increased levels of inflammation markers is an independent predictor of unfavourable outcome in patients with coronary heart disease, chronic cardiac insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, and metabolic syndrome; it may be a consequence of joint contribution of sympatic activation and inflammation to the development of atherothrombotic complications. This review is focused on the methods of CRV evaluation, possible mechanisms of mutual potentiation of autonomous nervous system disturbances and inflammatory process, factors responsible for cardiac autonomous dysfunction in RA and SLE. Much attention is given to the possibilities of correction of vegetative dysregulation of cardiac activity in patients with autoimmune diseases.
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Novikova
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Popkova
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Lisitsyna
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Nasonov
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000294:innervation / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011379:Prognosis; D011674:Pulse / Q000379:methods*