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Whether metaboreflex is over-activated and participate to poor aerobic capacity in patients with hereditary transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (CA-TTR) is unknown.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> Twenty-two CA-TTR patients (aged 76 \u00b1 7, 68% male) with the V122I (p.Val142Ile) transthyretin underwent a thorough evaluation including heart rate variability metrics, electrochemical skin conductance (ESC), physical function cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and muscle metaboreflex assessment. Eleven control subjects were chosen for muscle metaboreflex assessment.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Age-matched controls (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 11) and CA-TTR patients (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 22) had similar metaboreflex sensitivity for heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac index and mean systemic arterial pressure. Compared with age-matched controls, metaboreflex sensitivity for systemic vascular resistance (\u221218.64% \u00b1 6.91% vs 3.14% \u00b1 23.35%) and minute-ventilation responses (\u22129.65% \u00b1 14.83% vs 11.84% \u00b1 23.1%) was markedly increased in CA-TTR patients. Values of ESC displayed positive correlations with stroke volume (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.53, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.011) and cardiac index (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.51, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.015) components of metaboreflex sensitivity, an inverse correlation with systemic vascular resistance (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.55, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.008) and a trend with mean arterial (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.42, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.052) components of metaboreflex sensitivity. Peak aerobic capacity (peak VO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>%) displayed an inverse correlation with the ventilation component of metaboreflex sensitivity (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.62, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.015).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> Consistent with the \u201cmuscle hypothesis\u201d in heart failure, it is proposed that deterioration of skeletal muscle function in hereditary CA-TTR patients may activate muscle metaboreflex, leading to an increase in ventilation and sensation of breathlessness, the perception of fatigue, and overall sympathetic activation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2023.1174645","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,15]],"date-time":"2023-05-15T13:24:57Z","timestamp":1684157097000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["The ventilatory component of the muscle metaboreflex is overstimulated in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis patients with poor aerobic capacity"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Astrid","family":"Monfort","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eugenie","family":"Thevenet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lievyn","family":"Enette","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cedric","family":"Fagour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jocelyn","family":"Inamo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Remi","family":"Neviere","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"259","DOI":"10.1007\/s10877-012-9424-3","article-title":"Influence of age and gender on autonomic regulation of heart","volume":"27","author":"Abhishekh","year":"2013","journal-title":"J. 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