Low heart rate variability and cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer survivors

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-66

  Crosswell, Alexandra D ^a   Lockwood, Kimberly G ^b   Ganz, Patricia A ^c   Bower, Julienne E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic functioning; Autonomic nervous system; Inflammation; Parasympathetic activity; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; AUTACOID;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY CANCER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; BLOOD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; FATIGUE; HEART RATE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84901242790     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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