Biofeedback treatment of prehypertension: Analyses of efficacy, heart rate variability and EEG approximate entropy

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 973-975

  Xu, X Y ^a   Gao, J ^a   Ling, D ^a   Wang, T H ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT DURATION; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36448996990     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1002237     Document Type: Article

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