Sino-European transcontinental basic and clinical high-tech acupuncture studies - Part 2: Acute stimulation effects on heart rate and its variability in patients with insomnia

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Cheng, Guangyu ^b   Cheng, Weiping ^b   Wang, Lu ^a   Niu, Qianqian ^b   Feng, Xiao ^b   Gaischek, Ingrid ^a   Kuang, Haixue ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84859753925     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/916085     Document Type: Article

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