Heart rate recovery: Autonomic determinants, methods of assessment and association with mortality and cardiovascular diseases

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 327-339

  Peçanha, Tiago ^a   Silva Júnior, Natan Daniel ^a   Forjaz, Cláudia Lúcia de Moraes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Exercise; Heart rate; Parasympathetic nervous system; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REFLEX; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMOREGULATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART; INNERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908357013     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12102     Document Type: Review

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