Concurrent relations among cigarette smoking status, resting heart rate variability, and erectile response

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1230-1239

  Harte, Christopher B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac autonomic function; Erectile physiology; Erectile tumescence; Heart rate variability; Nicotine; Sexual arousal; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE PLUS DEXAMPHETAMINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; MELATONIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENIS ERECTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESTING HEART RATE; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOBACCO; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOBACCO USE;

CARDIAC AUTONOMIC FUNCTION; ERECTILE PHYSIOLOGY; ERECTILE TUMESCENCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NICOTINE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SMOKING;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EROTICA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899473231     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12486     Document Type: Article

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