Age, gender and fractal scaling in heart rate variability

Clinical Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 299-308

  Otsuka, Kuniaki ^a   Cornelissen, Germaine ^b   Halberg, Franz ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Circadian rhythm; Correlation dimension; Gender; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0030678578     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0930299     Document Type: Article

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