Table 1.

Selection of important symptoms in anamnesis and examination of the cardiovascular autonomic nervous system.

History of the cardiovascular system
•Blood pressure:	Orthostatic hypotension or syncopes—severity, frequency, duration
	• Triggers: Orthostasis, food intake, heat, physical exertion, etc.
	• Accompanying symptoms: anxiety, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, tiredness, tachycardia, disturbed vision or hearing, headache/neck/back pain, etc.
	• Subjective countermeasures: e.g., sitting down, crouching down, lying down
	Elevated blood pressure when lying down
•Heart rate:	Tachycardia at rest, during exercise or orthostasis, cardiac arrhythmias: disturbed sinus arrhythmia, non-variable heart rate
• Vasomotion:	heat/cold intolerance, sensitivity to cold (“cold acra”), skin trophics, skin color