Heart rate variability characteristics in a large group of active-duty marines and relationship to posttraumatic stress

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-301

  Minassian, Arpi ^a,b   Geyer, Mark A ^a,b,c   Baker, Dewleen G ^a,b,c   Nievergelt, Caroline M ^a,b,c   O'connor, Daniel T ^b   Risbrough, Victoria B ^a,b,c  

^a Veteran's Administration   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat; Depression; Parasympathetic; PTSD; Sympathetic nervous system; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICIAN ADMINISTERED PTSD SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SAILOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN INJURIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

CAFFEINE; NICOTINE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN INJURIES; CAFFEINE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NICOTINE; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900800114     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000056     Document Type: Article

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