Open AccessLow-Level Lead Exposure, Metabolic Syndrome, and Heart Rate Variability: The VA Normative Aging Study
Author(s) -
Sung Kyun Park,
Joel Schwartz,
Marc G. Weisskopf,
David Sparrow,
Pantel Vokonas,
Robert O. Wright,
Brent A. Coull,
Huiling Nie,
Howard Hu
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.8992
Subject(s) - medicine , metabolic syndrome , heart rate variability , lead exposure , hypertriglyceridemia , cardiology , endocrinology , heart failure , abdominal obesity , obesity , physiology , heart rate , blood pressure , triglyceride , cholesterol , cats
Altered heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of poor cardiac autonomic function, has been associated with sudden cardiac death and heart failure.
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