Assessment of cardiac autonomic modulation during graded head-up tilt by symbolic analysis of heart rate variability

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Porta, Alberto ^a,c   Tobaldini, Eleonora ^a   Guzzetti, Stefano ^a   Furlan, Raffaello ^a   Montano, Nicola ^a   Gnecchi Ruscone, Tomaso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b A MANZONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Power spectral density

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 34547100763     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00006.2007     Document Type: Article

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