A healthy heart is not a metronome: an integrative review of the heart's anatomy and heart rate variability.

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Published in Front Psychol on September 30, 2014

Authors

Fred Shaffer1, Rollin McCraty2, Christopher L Zerr1

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Applied Psychophysiology, Department of Psychology, Truman State University Kirksville, MO, USA.
2: HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath Boulder Creek, CA, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Impact of Vitamin D3 Administration on Cardiac Autonomic Tone in Asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Overlap Patients (COPD) | NCT03773809

Arrhythmias in Pulmonary Hypertension Assessed by Continuous Long-term Cardiac Monitoring (ASPIRE) | NCT04554160

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