Reproducibility of methods used for the assessment of autonomous nervous system's function

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 275-279

  Tannus, Lucianne R M ^a   Sperandei, Sandro ^b   Montenegro Júnior, Renan Magalhães ^c   Carvalho, Valéria Rebouças ^c   Pedrosa, Hermelinda Cordeiro ^d   Félix, Mônica Tolentino ^d   Canani, Luis ^e   Zucatti, Alessandra Teixeira Netto ^f   de Oliveira, Diego Henrique Andrade ^g   Rea, Rosângela Roginski ^g   Gomes, Marilia de B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d Unit of Diabetes   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^f Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre   (Brazil)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac autonomic neuropathy; Complication; Diabetes; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RR INTERVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

CARDIAC AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; COMPLICATION; DIABETES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VALSALVA MANEUVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883829496     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2013.05.444     Document Type: Article

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