Heart rate and heart rate variability responses to Tai Chi and jogging in Beijing and Graz

North American Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 70-74

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Zhang, Weibo ^b   Huang, Tao ^b   Wang, Lu ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Exercise; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Jogging; Tai Chi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOGGING; LEISURE; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; SPORT; TAI CHI;

EID: 79952592645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19472714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4297/najms.2011.370     Document Type: Article

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