Heart rate variability during waking and sleep in healthy males and females

Sleep

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1067-1071

  Elsenbruch, Sigrid ^a   Harnish, Michael J ^a   Orr, William C ^a  

^a Thomas N Lynn Inst Hlthcare Res   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Electrocardiography; Gender differences; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Rapid eye movement sleep; Sex; Sleep; Vagus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP STAGE; VAGUS TONE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033573485     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/22.8.1067     Document Type: Article

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