Heart rate variability and short duration spaceflight: Relationship to post-flight orthostatic intolerance

BMC Physiology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-35

  Blaber, Andrew P ^a   Bondar, Roberta L ^b   Kassam, Mahmood S ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Orthostatic intolerance; Parasympathetic nervous system; Spectral analysis; Stand test; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; RR INTERVAL; SPACE FLIGHT; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

EID: 2942661701     PISSN: 14726793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-4-1     Document Type: Article

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