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Kardiovaskulární regulace u alexithymicky laděných osob
| Title in English | Cardiovascular regulation in alexithymic people |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | One of the four basic components of emotional response is the vegetative component that is mediated by a direct connection between structures of anterior limbic brain and hypothalamus. A deficit in the ability to identify and express emotions, lack of imagination and externally oriented cognitive style is defined as alexithymia. This status is now given in connection with a variety of psychosomatic diseases affecting the cardiovascular system. The aim of this work is to clarify whether there is a relationship between the observed degree of alexithymia and cardiovascular parameters, and whether the results of the questionnaires will differ between male and female subpopulations test set. In a group of 219 medical students aged 20-24 years was done survey questionnaires TAS-20 (Toronto alexithymia Scale 20-Item). The results of the test and the total of the individual subscales (description of emotions, identifying of emotions, tendencies to an external focus) for all test subjects were divided by gender and subjected to statistical processing by nonparametric tests. Two groups of 20 students with alexithymic score values (A) and 20 with lowest values (E) were selected on the basis of the TAS-20. The 11 subjects in group A and 13 subjects in group E were examined with a minimum 3 week intervals continuous blood pressure measurement. The resulting data is divided into overlapping three-minute intervals and processed by spectral analyzes. A significant difference in the total TAS-20 scores was found for the entire group of 219 students between men and women. The identification of emotions subscale, women reached significantly higher levels than men (p <0.001). The subscales describing emotions and external orientation, between men and women were not found statistically significant differences. The studied parameters of blood pressure regulation, pulse interval variability and systolic blood pressure were found between groups A and E were statistically insignificant. |
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