Significance of risk factors for autonomic dysfunction in childhood and adolescence for physical examination

Autonomic nervous system dysfunction is a common and extremely diverse clinical phenomenon. Most of these disorders are designated by the term "autonomic dysfunction", or "vegetovascular dystonia", which has no nosological independence. This universal syndrome of homeostasis shifts often manifests itself during critical periods of ontogenesis and serves as a signal of incomplete well-being. One of such periods is pubertal age, a time of intense growth and morphofunctional restructuring of the body. Functional disorders of autonomic regulation during puberty may be the initial, reversible stage of diseases of various organs and systems that arose in early childhood.