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(Circulation. 1959;19:579.)
© 1959 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Vasomotor Responses to Exercise in the Extremities of Subjects with Vascular Disease

W. REDISCH M.D.¹; K. DE CRINIS M.D.¹; A. ANTONIO M.D.¹; A. BOGDANOVITZ M.D.¹; J. M. STEELE M.D.¹; Gordon Gilbert B.S.¹; Raleigh Wheeler B.S.¹

¹ From the New York University Research Service Goldwater Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, New York University College of Medicine, New York, N. Y.

Response of peripheral blood flow was studied in subjects of various age groups with and without vascular disease. Under constant environmental conditions, the skin-muscle distribution of total flow to the lower extremity showed the following trend. In young healthy adults the muscles get a somewhat higher share; in elderly persons without vascular disease the distribution is about equal; in patients with nongangrenous obliterative arteriosclerosis the skin is favored over the muscle. Exercise increases total flow in all groups, but does not alter the distribution. Sympathectomy does not seem to influence response to exercise.

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