Investigating the associations of self-rated health: Heart rate variability is more strongly associated than inflammatory and other frequently used biomarkers in a cross sectional occupational sample

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Jarczok, Marc N ^a   Kleber, Marcus E ^a   Koenig, Julian ^b   Loerbroks, Adrian ^c   Herr, Raphael M ^a,d   Hoffmann, Kristina ^a   Fischer, Joachim E ^a   Benyamini, Yael ^e   Thayer, Julian F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW FREQUENCY POWER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SELF EVALUATION; SELF RATED HEALTH MEASUREMENT; SQUARE ROOT OF THE MEAN OF SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENCES; STANDARD DEVIATION OF NORMAL TO NORMAL INTERVAL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADOLESCENT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923296463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117196     Document Type: Article

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