The Female Heart: Sex Differences in the Dynamics of ECG in Response to Stress

Sex differences in the study of the human physiological response to mental stress are often erroneously ignored. To this end, we set out to show that our understanding of the stress response is fundamentally altered once sex differences are taken into account. This is achieved by comparing the heart...

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Main Authors: Tricia Adjei, Jingwen Xue, Danilo P. Mandic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
Subjects:
ECG
HRV
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2018.01616/full