To include or not to include? A response to the meta-analysis of heart rate variability and depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Licht, Carmilla M M ^a   Penninx, Brenda W ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HEART RATE; HUMANS;

EID: 79151475432     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.06.034     Document Type: Letter

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