Effects of Exercise During Pregnancy on Maternal Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability

PM and R

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 611-617

  May, Linda E ^a   Knowlton, Jennifer ^b   Hanson, Jessica ^b   Suminski, Richard ^c   Paynter, Christopher ^c   Fang, Xiangming ^a   Gustafson, Kathleen M ^d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FETUS; FREQUENCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84962082065     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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