Heart rate and its variability change after the menopause

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-330

  Brockbank, C L ^a   Chatterjee, F ^a   Bruce, S A ^b   Woledge, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; RR INTERVAL;

EID: 0034070182     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.2000.01902.x     Document Type: Article

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