No effects of pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields on heart rate variability during human sleep

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 251-256

  Mann, Klaus ^a   Röschke, Joachim ^a   Connemann, Bernhard ^a   Beta, Harald ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital mobile radio telephone; Electromagnetic fields; Heart rate variability; Sleep; Spectral power analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0031768292     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000026549     Document Type: Article

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