Effect of age and nutritional status on heart rate responses to cough and maximum handgrip

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 106-110

  Sucharita, S ^a   Bharathi, A V ^a   Vaz, Mario ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Age heart rate; BMI; Cough; Maximum handgrip

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DATA ANALYSIS; HAND GRIP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BAROREFLEX; BODY MASS INDEX; COUGH; HAND STRENGTH; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 0347360484     PISSN: 00195499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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