Effect of aerobic fitness training on heart rate variability and cardiac baroreflex sensitivity

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 28-51

  De Geus, Eco J C ^a   Karsdorp, Ruud ^a   Boer, Bert ^a   De Regt, Guido ^a   Orlebeke, Jacob F ^a   Van Doornen, Lorenz J P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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