Heart rate variability as a measure of cardiac autonomic function in anorexia nervosa: A review of the literature

European Eating Disorders Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-99

  Mazurak, Nazar ^a,b   Enck, Paul ^a   Muth, Eric ^c   Teufel, Martin ^a   Zipfel, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b IVANO FRANKIVSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Autonomic regulation; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; GENDER; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS;

EID: 79952273595     PISSN: 10724133     EISSN: 10990968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/erv.1081     Document Type: Review

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