A Comparative Analysis of Dietary Habits on Sensory Motor Association and Heart Rate Variability during Menstrual Cycle
Introduction: Dietary habits can make a big difference on both physical and mental aspects of the body. Menstrual disorder frequently affects the quality of life of adolescent and young adult women. Menstrual cycle irregularities may be associated with psychological stress, and endocrine disturb...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
2016-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research |
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Online Access: | https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/7068/16421_CE(RA1)_F(T)_PF1(BMAK)_PFA(AK)_PF2(PAG).pdf |
Summary: | Introduction: Dietary habits can make a big difference on both
physical and mental aspects of the body. Menstrual disorder
frequently affects the quality of life of adolescent and young adult
women. Menstrual cycle irregularities may be associated with
psychological stress, and endocrine disturbances. Monitoring of
sensory-motor association and cardiovascular activity across the
menstrual cycle has not been evaluated with dietary habits.
Aim: The present study was carried out to bridge the relationship between dietary habits and endogenous sex hormone mediated sensory motor association and heart rate variability (HRV)
among young females during different phases of menstrual cycle.
Materials and Methods: The present study was carried out
on healthy volunteered 100 female medical students in the age
group of 19-25 years with regular menstrual cycle. Group I (n=45)
vegetarians, Group II (n=25) eggetarians and Group III (n= 30)
non-vegetarians, where n denotes the number of individuals
in each group. Sensory-motor association (reaction time) and
cardiovascular activity (HRV) was evaluated.
Results: We observed among all the dietary habits (vegetarians,
eggetarians and non-vegetarians) the reaction time and HRV was
comparable in follicular and menstrual phase, however it was
significantly altered in luteal phase when compared to follicular
and menstrual phase. Moreover, among all the dietary habits,
non-vegetarians showed more significant alteration of reaction
time and HRV in luteal phase when compared to vegetarians and
eggetarians, as well as there was positive correlation between
visual and auditory reaction time and negative correlation
between LF and HF in luteal phase, among all the dietary habits.
Conclusion: We concluded sensorimotor association and
regulation of autonomic tone is modified in luteal phase comparable to follicular phase and menstrual phase; however
non-vegetarian had showed more significant alterations as
compared to eggetarians and vegetarians. These suggest that
sympathetic nervous activities are predominant in the luteal
phase as compared to follicular phase, and this sympathetic
dominance is more among non-vegetarians, which may be due
to their higher BMI. The alterations in the balance of ovarian
hormones might be responsible for these changes. Long-term
intake of vegetarian diets may facilitate vagal regulation of the
heart without increasing the sympathetic modulations of the
cardiovascular system. |
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ISSN: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |