Heart rate variability during sleep in patients with vasovagal syncope

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1310-1316

  Cintra, Fatima ^a   Poyares, Dalva ^a   Do Amaral, Alessandro ^a   De Marchi, Guilherme ^a   Barreto, Simone ^a   Tufik, Sergio ^a   De Paola, Angelo ^a   Guilleminault, Christian ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; REM sleep; Sympathetic activation; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; TIME; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP STAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33645063759     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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