Reduced heart rate variability predicts poor sleep quality in a case-control study of chronic fatigue syndrome

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-78

  Burton, A R ^a   Rahman, K ^a   Kadota, Y ^a   Lloyd, A ^a   Vollmer Conna, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Heart rate variability; Sleep; Sympathetic hypervigilance; Unrefreshing sleep; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NIGHT SLEEP; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SLEEP QUALITY; SYMPTOM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; HEART; HEART RATE; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956215290     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2296-1     Document Type: Article

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