Evidence of effective cardiovascular countermeasures during spaceflights: insights from wearable monitoring
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Microgravity induces profound cardiovascular changes, prompting space agencies to develop countermeasures to preserve their crewmembers' health. This study aimed to use a portable device based on electro-, impedance- and seismo-cardiography, to monitor a series of cardiovascular features in 17 cosmonauts. Our results showed that the evolution of cardiac time intervals, blood pressure, stroke volume, and cardiac systolic kinetic energy depended on the chosen baseline position. After five months in space, heart rate increased compared to the supine baseline on Earth (p = 0.013, d = 0.86) but not to the sitting position. Similarly, a marker of cardiac contractility (PEP/LVET ratio) decreased relative to the sitting baseline (p = 0.004, d = 1.09) but not the supine reference. All measured features, except heart rate, returned to baseline within three days post-landing. These findings support the efficacy of current countermeasures in facilitating rapid cardiovascular re-adaptation to terrestrial gravity.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".