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Head-up tilt test parameters including high frequency power of the heart frequency interval, the ratio of low frequency power of the distance between two consecutive R waves in electrocardiogram (RR interval) to the high frequency and low frequency power of systolic blood pressure were used to evaluate parasympathetic, cardiac sympathetic and vasomotor sympathetic functions, respectively, in 80 patients with Parkinson's disease. We examined the cross-sectional area of the vagus nerves bilaterally using nerve ultrasound and compared mean values with a control group of healthy subjects (n = 40) as well as patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (n = 76). The cross-sectional area of right\/left vagus nerve of Parkinson's patients was significantly lower compared to the right\/left vagus nerve of the control group and of chronic demyelinating polyneuropathy patients. Furthermore, the cross-sectional area of the right vagus nerve was significantly larger from the one of the left vagus nerve for all groups. Based on tilt test, 43 patients (disease duration 7 \u00b1 5, age at evaluation 71 \u00b1 9, Hoehn and Yahr score 2.8 \u00b1 8) were diagnosed with autonomic dysfunction (orthostatic hypertension n = 11, chronotropic incompetence n = 31, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome n = 1). Patients with orthostatic hypotension showed significantly higher Unified Parkinson\u2019s Disease Rating Scale-III values than those with chronotropic incompetence. The cross-sectional area of the vagus nerve correlated inversely with heart rate in rest and supine position and positively with tilt test parameters representing parasympathetic modulation through vagal activity [high frequency power of the distance between two consecutive R waves in electrocardiogram (RR interval)] at rest. We demonstrate for the first time that morphological characteristics of the vagus nerve correlate with parameters of parasympathetic function from the spectral analysis of cardiovascular parameters in tilt test for Parkinson's patients. This correlation reveals the impact of the atrophy of vagal atrophy for autonomic function in Parkinson's disease. Nerve ultrasound of the vagus nerve could potentially be used as an adjunct to tilt table examination to diagnose autonomic dysfunction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/braincomms\/fcad006","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,18]],"date-time":"2023-01-18T15:47:42Z","timestamp":1674056862000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Vagal cross-sectional area correlates with parasympathetic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Sophie","family":"Huckemann","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum , Bochum , Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katharina","family":"Mueller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum , Bochum , 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