Resting Heart Rate Is Not a Good Predictor of a Clustered Cardiovascular Risk Score in Adolescents: The HELENA Study.

Resting heart rate (RHR) reflects sympathetic nerve activity a significant association between RHR and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality has been reported in some epidemiologic studies.To analyze the predictive power and accuracy of RHR as a screening measure for individual and clustered cardio...

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Main Authors: Augusto César Ferreira de Moraes, Alex Jones Flores Cassenote, Catherine Leclercq, Jean Dallongeville, Odysseas Androutsos, Katalin Török, Marcela González-Gross, Kurt Widhalm, Anthony Kafatos, Heráclito Barbosa Carvalho, Luis Alberto Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4444318?pdf=render