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Open Access
01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Interplay between the innate immune response and heart rate variability in healthy human volunteers
Authors:
M Kox, BP Ramakers, JC Pompe, JG Van der Hoeven, CW Hoedemaekers, P Pickkers
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) and innate immunity are intimately linked. Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis is a widely employed method to assess cardiac ANS activity, and changes in HRV indices may correlate with inflammatory markers. Here, we investigated whether baseline HRV predicts the innate immune response. Second, we investigated whether the magnitude of the inflammatory response correlated with HRV alterations. …