Insights from the study of heart rate variability

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 249-261

  Stein, P K ^a   Kleiger, R E ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac autonomic modulation; Heart rate variability; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0033054145     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.50.1.249     Document Type: Review

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