CrossTalk Proposal: Heart Rate Variability is a Valid Measure of Cardiac Autonomic Responsiveness

Overview

Journal J Physiol

Specialty Physiology

Date 2019 Apr 23

PMID 31006862

Citations 44

Authors

Marek Malik

Katerina Hnatkova

Heikki V Huikuri

Federico Lombardi

Georg Schmidt

Markus Zabel

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