Heart rate variability and obesity indices: emphasis on the response to noise and standing

JA Kim, YG Park, KH Cho, MH Hong… - The Journal of the …, 2005 - Am Board Family Med
Background: Obese people have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease, but the
mechanism of this result remains obscure. The purpose of this study was to prove heart rate …

The relationship between heart rate variability and measures of body habitus

R Freeman, ST Weiss, M Roberts, SM Zbikowski… - Clinical Autonomic …, 1995 - Springer
There is a well-recognized relationship between autonomic nervous system function and
body habitus although few studies have addressed the role of the parasympathetic nervous …

Heart rate variability in obesity and the effect of weight loss

K Karason, H Mølgaard, J Wikstrand… - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
To investigate the effects of obesity and weight loss on cardiovascular autonomic function,
we examined 28 obese patients referred for weight-reducing gastroplasty, 24 obese patients …

Impaired autonomic control of heart rate and blood pressure in obesity: role of age and of insulin-resistance

D Quilliot, L Fluckiger, F Zannad, P Drouin… - Clinical Autonomic …, 2001 - Springer
The objectives of this study were to investigate cardiac and peripheral autonomic nervous
system changes in normotensive overweight or obese subjects and the possible relation …

Association between obesity and heart rate variability indices: an intuition toward cardiac autonomic alteration–a risk of CVD

RL Yadav, PK Yadav, LK Yadav… - … syndrome and obesity …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Obese people have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease, which is
supposed to be due to autonomic dysfunction and/or metabolic disorder. The alterations in …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between heart rate variability and adiposity differs for central and overall adiposity

BG Windham, S Fumagalli, A Ble, JJ Sollers… - Journal of …, 2012 - hindawi.com
While frank obesity is associated with reduced HRV, indicative of poorer autonomic nervous
system (ANS) function, the association between body mass index (BMI) and HRV is less …

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

MR Carnethon, D Liao, GW Evans, WE Cascio… - American heart …, 2002 - Elsevier
Background The heart rate variability (HRV) response to postural change is a sensitive
measure of the shift in autonomic balance from parasympathetic to sympathetic …

Heart rate and blood pressure variability in obese normotensive subjects

G Piccirillo, F Vetta, E Viola, E Santagada… - International journal of …, 1998 - nature.com
RESULTS: Spectral data for heart rate showed that the massively obese subjects had lower
LF [mean±sem] normalized units (NUs) at rest (35.1±0.9) and after tilt (56.1±2.1), than the …

Power spectral analysis of heart rate variability in obese subjects: evidence of decreased cardiac sympathetic responsiveness.

G Piccirillo, F Vetta, FL Fimognari… - … journal of obesity and …, 1996 - europepmc.org
OBJECTIVE: To investigate changes in sympathetic nervous system function in obesity.
DESIGN: Cross-sectional clinical study. SUBJECTS: 18 middle-aged obese patients (43-55 …

Autonomic activity assessed by heart rate spectral analysis varies with fat distribution in obese women

YY Gao, JC Lovejoy, A Sparti, GA Bray… - Obesity …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity in humans has been associated with altered autonomic nervous system activity. The
objective of this study was to examine the relationship between autonomic function and …