American Heart Journal
Volume 143, Issue 5 , Pages 808-813 , May 2002

Correlates of the shift in heart rate variability with an active postural change in a healthy population sample: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities study

Received 15 June 2001 ,Accepted 27 November 2001.

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☆ Supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ARIC contracts N01-HC-55015, N01-HC-55016, N01-HC-55018, N01-HC-55019, N01-HC-55020, N01-HC-55021, N01-HC-55022; HRV grant 5 R01 HL55669; and NIH/NHLBI NRSA grant 5T32HL07055.

☆☆ Reprint requests: Gerardo Heiss, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 137 E Franklin St, Bank of America Center, Suite 306, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

★ E-mail: gerardo_heiss@unc.edu

PII: S0002-8703(02)63449-0

doi: 10.1067/mhj.2002.121928

American Heart Journal
Volume 143, Issue 5 , Pages 808-813 , May 2002

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