American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 3 , Pages 460.e1-460.e7 , September 2007

Heart rate recovery is more strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome, waist circumference, and insulin sensitivity in women than in men among the elderly in the general population

  • Göran Nilsson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden
    • Department of Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Pär Hedberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden
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  • Tommy Jonason, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden
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  • Ingemar Lönnberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden
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  • John Öhrvik, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Cardiology Research Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: John Ohrvik, PhD, Cardiology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden.

Received 19 February 2007 ,Accepted 19 June 2007.

  • Image Result

    Heart rate recovery at 4 minutes in men and women with and without the MetS. Boxes span the 25% to 75% percentiles, and whiskers denote nonoutliers' minimum and maximum values.

    Heart rate recovery at 4 minutes in men and women with and without the MetS. Boxes span the 25% to 75% percentiles, and whiskers denote nonoutliers' minimum and maximum values.

  • Image Result

    Scatter plot of the relation between HRR at 4 minutes and waist circumference (triangles, MetS; circles, non-MetS).

    Scatter plot of the relation between HRR at 4 minutes and waist circumference (triangles, MetS; circles, non-MetS).

  • Image Result

    Scatter plot of the relation between the HRR at 4 minutes and HOMA-IR index (triangles, MetS; circles, non-MetS).

    Scatter plot of the relation between the HRR at 4 minutes and HOMA-IR index (triangles, MetS; circles, non-MetS).

PII: S0002-8703(07)00529-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.06.025

American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 3 , Pages 460.e1-460.e7 , September 2007

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