Host and environmental determinants of heart rate and heart rate variability in four European populations

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 525-535

  Stolarz, Katarzyna ^a,b,f   Staessen, Jan A ^a   Kuznetsova, Tatiana ^a,c   Tikhonoff, Valérie ^a,d   State, Doina ^e   Babeanu, Speranta ^e   Casiglia, Edoardo ^d   Fagard, Robert H ^a   Kawecka Jaszcz, Kalina ^b   Nikitin, Yuri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e San Luca Hospital   (Romania)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Lifestyle; Population; Posture; Power spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; BREATHING RATE; COFFEE; EUROPE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GENDER; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROMANIA; RR INTERVAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; POSTURE; RESPIRATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0037357941     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004872-200303000-00018     Document Type: Article

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