[Dynamics of some electrocardiographic parameters in cosmonauts during long-term Mir mission]

Aviakosm Ekolog Med. 2003;37(2):41-5.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The paper deals with the results of electrocardiographic investigations of relatively resting 59 cosmonauts at the age of 30 to 52 during long-term space missions. Heart rate (HR), T-wave amplitude and an electric systole interval were analyzed. During their missions, the cosmonauts consistently combined HR rises with aggravated repolarization manifested by a relative elongation of the phase and T-depression. All alterations were statistically significant (p < 0.05); however, no pathology was detected in the myocardial bioelectrical activity. With this dynamics, values of the parameters under study did not, as a rule, leave the boundaries of the physiological norm.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis
  • Electrocardiography / methods*
  • Female
  • Heart Rate / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Long QT Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Space Flight*
  • Time Factors