Gender differences of heart rate variability in healthy volunteers

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 422-425

  Saleem, Shemaila ^a   Hussain, Muhammad Mazhar ^b   Majeed, Syed Muhammad Imran ^c   Khan, Muhammad Alamgir ^b  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^c National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory electrocardiography; Autonomic nervous system; Healthy volunteers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NN INTERVAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; RR INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84860197568     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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