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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 | Special Issue 1/2011

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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. …
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Title
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
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9678

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