Age and ethnicity differences in short-term heart-rate variability

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 421-426

  Choi, Jong Bae ^a,b   Hong, Suzi ^b   Nelesen, Richard ^b   Bardwell, Wayne A ^b   Natarajan, Loki ^c   Schubert, Christian ^b,d   Dimsdale, Joel E ^b  

^a Kyunggi Provincial Hospital for Elderly   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Age; Ethnicity; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; AGE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RACE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; AGING, PREMATURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33746082909     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000221378.09239.6a     Document Type: Article

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