Sympathovagal balance from heart rate variability: Time for a second round?

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1141-1142

  Pagani, Massimo ^a   Lucini, Daniela ^b   Porta, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHOVAGAL BALANCE;

EID: 84866890508     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2012.066977     Document Type: Letter

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