Open AccessShort-term heart rate variability during a cognitive challenge in young and older adults
Author(s) -
R. Wood
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/31.2.131
Subject(s) - heart rate variability , medicine , heart rate , standard deviation , autonomic function , cardiology , analysis of variance , autonomic nervous system , audiology , blood pressure , statistics , mathematics
attention-demanding tasks cause changes in the autonomic modulation of cardiac function. Heart rate variability, an index of autonomic modulation of heart rate, decreases with age.
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