Heart rate variability during high ambient heat exposure

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 915-920

  Bruce Low, Stewart S ^a   Cotterrell, David ^a   Jones, Gareth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental; Stress; Sympathovagal balance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; RR INTERVAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; HEAT; HEMATOCRIT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; STRESS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33748274957     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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