The effects of rate and irregularity on sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-26

  Segerson, Nathan M ^a   Sharma, Niraj ^a   Smith, Michael L ^b   Wasmund, Stephen L ^a   Kowal, Robert C ^a   Abedin, Moeen ^a   MacGregor, John F ^a   Pai, Rakesh K ^a   Freedman, Roger A ^a   Klein, Richard C ^a   Wall, T Scott ^a   Stoddard, Gregory ^a   Hamdan, Mohamed H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Fibrillation; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33845780728     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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