The Effect of Heart Rate on the Heart Rate Variability Response to Autonomic Interventions

Heart rate variability (HRV), the beat-to-beat variation in either heart rate (HR) or heart period (R-R interval), has become a popular clinical and investigational tool to quantify cardiac autonomic regulation. However, it is not widely appreciated that, due to the inverse curvilinear relationship...

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Main Author: George E Billman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2013.00222/full