Regular heartbeat dynamics are associated with cardiac health

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Cysarz, Dirk ^a,b   Lange, Silke ^c   Matthiessen, Peter F ^a   Van Leeuwen, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Integrated Studies of Anthroposophic Medicine   (Germany)

^c Gronemeyer Institute of Microtherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximate entropy; Heart rate variability; Symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33846176580     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00161.2006     Document Type: Article

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