Age-related changes in cardiac autonomic control during sleep

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-180

  Brandenberger, Gabrielle ^a,b   Viola, Antoine U ^a   Ehrhart, Jean ^a   Charloux, Anne ^a   Geny, Bernard ^a   Piquard, François ^a   Simon, Chantal ^a  

^a Lab des Regulations Physiologiques   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Autonomic nervous system; Breathing; Heart rate variability; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS INDEX; CHIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODICITY; RESPIRATION; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041832080     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.2003.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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