Understanding autonomic sympathovagal balance from short-term heart rate variations. Are we analyzing noise?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 447-460

  Altimiras, Jordi ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac function; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Power spectrum; Respiratory sinus arhythmia; Spectral analysis; Sympathovagal balance

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; REVIEW; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VERTEBRATE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033452920     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00137-3     Document Type: Review

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