Association between reduced heart rate variability and cognitive impairment in older disabled women in the community: Women's Health and Aging Study I

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1751-1757

  Kim, Dae Hyun ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^c   Varadhan, Ravi ^d,e   Guralnik, Jack M ^c   Carlson, Michelle C ^d,e   Fleisher, Lee A ^f   Fried, Linda P ^d,e   Chaves, Paulo H M ^d,e  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Cognition; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33750532101     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00940.x     Document Type: Article

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