Heart rate variability and heart rate in healthy volunteers: Is the female autonomic nervous system cardioprotective?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1334-1341

  Ramaekers, D ^a   Ector, H ^a   Aubert, A E ^a   Rubens, A ^a   Van De Werf, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Age; Autonomic nervous system; Gender; Heart rate variability; Sympathetic activity; Vagal activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BELGIUM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032169985     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1084     Document Type: Article

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