Effects of Physical Conditioning on Cardiac Autonomic Function in Healthy Middle-Aged Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether moderate exercise training affects heart rate variability (HRV) and spontaneous baroreflex (SBR) function in healthy middle-aged women. Thirty-two sedentary women aged 40-59 yr were divided into four groups depending on reproductive state (premenopausal, PrM or postmenopausal, PoM, and training group (exercise or sedentary control group). The electrocardiographic R-R interval and systolic blood pressure (finger plethysmograph) were measured at rest during paced breathing at 16 breaths/min in the left lateral decubitus, sitting, and free standing postures, and during upright cycling at 40% maximal heart rate reserve (MHRR). After initial testing, the exercise groups underwent a 12 week walking program. After training, both exercise groups (PrM and PoM) had a longer R-R interval in all conditions, a higher SBR slope in the sitting and standing posture and lower sympathetic modulation in the standing posture, than the control groups and pre-training levels. During exercise, vagal modulation was higher and sympathetic modulation was lower in both exercise groups compared to pre-training values. Vagal modulation is increased following moderate intensity aerobic conditioning in middle-aged women.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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