Autonomic activity assessed by heart rate spectral analysis varies with fat distribution in obese women

Obesity Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-63

  Gao, Young Y ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Humans; Obesity; R r interval; Sympathetic and parasympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIMETRY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 0029691420     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1550-8528.1996.tb00512.x     Document Type: Article

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