Time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability reveals cardiolocomotor coupling during dynamic cycling exercise in humans

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Blain, Grégory ^a,b,d   Meste, Olivier ^b   Blain, Alexandre ^a   Bermon, Stéphane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c Monaco Institute of Sports Medicine and Surgery   (Monaco)

^d John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Locomotion; Pedaling frequency component; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; BICYCLING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149148929     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00881.2008     Document Type: Article

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