1. Effect of Stress on Autonomic and Cardiovascular Systems in Military Population: A Systematic Review
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Valentín E. Fernández-Elías, Álvaro Bustamante-Sánchez, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Alberto Hormeño-Holgado, Athanasios A. Dalamitros, and Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez
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medicine.medical_specialty ,020205 medical informatics ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,Physical exercise ,02 engineering and technology ,Review Article ,Biofeedback ,Aparato circulatorio ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Militares ,Heart rate ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,Medicine ,Heart rate variability ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Chronic stress ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,education ,Sistema cardiovascular ,education.field_of_study ,Psychophysiological ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Stressor ,Estrés mental ,RC666-701 ,Fuerzas armadas ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Psicofisiología ,Paratroopers are a military ,Psychosocial ,Estrés (Psicología) - Abstract
Stress is regulated by the autonomous nervous system, increasing the sympathetic modulation when a threat is perceived. A multifactorial response usually leads to significant behavioural modifications and alterations on homeostasis and physical and psychological status. Moreover, stress is an emotional response that can lead to psychosocial and psychophysiological adversity. Regarding military population, military operations and combat exposure are important stressors that influence acute and chronic stress response in soldiers, affecting their performance and health. A bibliographic search was carried out between April and May 2019, focusing on recent studies (2013–2019) that analysed psychophysiological response, stress, stress regulation, heart rate, heart rate variability, and posttraumatic stress disorder in military population. Autonomic and cardiovascular chronic stress seems to be modulated by experience and previous specific training of each military unit. Physical exercise, music embedded with binaural beat technology, bidirectional sensory motor rhythm training, heart rate variability biofeedback, and transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation are the main techniques applied to balance stress and to recover body homeostasis. Since military population are usually exposed to multiple stressors, knowing previous training and experience, together with developing techniques to balance stress, is the main practical application in this field of study to balance autonomic and cardiovascular systems. Sin financiación 1.866 JCR (2020) Q4, 116/142 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems 0.437 SJR (2020) Q3, 207/349 Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine No data IDR 2019 UEM
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- 2020