Heart rate variability in menopausal hot flashes during sleep

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 897-900

  Freedman, Robert R ^a,b   Kruger, Michael L ^b   Wasson, Samuel L ^a  

^a Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Hot flashes; Sleep; Sympathetic activation; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; NONREM SLEEP; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 80051552180     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820ac941     Document Type: Article

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