Effect of six weeks of shavasan training on spectral measures of short-term heart rate variability in young healthy volunteers

Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 370-373

  Madanmohan, ^a   Bhavanani, A B ^a   Prakash, E S ^a   Kamath, M G ^a   Amudhan, J ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOSOMATICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; YOGA;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOGA;

EID: 3242728462     PISSN: 00195499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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