Depressive symptoms and heart rate variability: Evidence for a shared genetic substrate in a study of twins

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 628-636

  Vaccarino, Viola ^a,c   Lampert, Rachel ^b   Bremner, J Douglas ^a   Lee, Forrester ^b   Su, Shaoyong ^a   Maisano, Carisa ^a   Murrah, Nancy V ^a   Jones, Linda ^a   Jawed, Farhan ^a   Afzal, Nadeem ^e   Ashraf, Ali ^e   Goldberg, Jack ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Vietnam Era Twin Registry   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Autonomic function; Electrophysiology; Genetic factors; Psychosocial factors; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HEART RATE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICS; VETERAN;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASES IN TWINS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VETERANS;

EID: 52049085056     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31817bcc9e     Document Type: Article

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