Short-term effects of espresso coffee on heart rate variability and blood pressure in habitual and non-habitual coffee consumers – A randomized crossover study

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 169-175

  Zimmermann Viehoff, Frank ^a   Thayer, Julian ^b   Koenig, Julian ^b   Herrmann, Christian ^a   Weber, Cora S ^a   Deter, Hans Christian ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood pressure; Caffeine; Coffee; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; GERMANY; HABIT; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAFFEINE; COFFEE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAFFEINE; COFFEE; COOKING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; GERMANY; HABITS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978488656     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830515Y.0000000018     Document Type: Article

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