Reduced low-frequency heart rate variability relates to greater intimal-medial thickness of the carotid wall in two samples

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-104

  Gautier, Clara ^a   Stine, Lynn ^a   Richard Jennings, J ^a,f   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a   Muldoon, Matthew B ^b   Kamarck, Thomas W ^a   Kaplan, George A ^c   Salonen, Jukka ^d,e   Manuck, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e Oy Jurilab Ltd   (Finland)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Heart disease; Heart rate variability; Sympathetic nervous system; Vagus

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RISK; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33847047851     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e328011ac01     Document Type: Article

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