Relationships between QT interval and heart rate variability at rest and the covariates in healthy young adults

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 173, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 53-57

  Arai, Kaori ^a   Nakagawa, Yui ^a   Iwata, Toyoto ^a   Horiguchi, Hyogo ^a   Murata, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corrected QT (QTc) interval; Covariate; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; QT index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REST; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872813446     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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