Depression and heart rate variability in firefighters

Depression and heart rate variability in firefighters

Introduction: Depression has been found to increase the risk of mortality in patients with coronary artery disease through a mechanism of changing cardiac autonomic tone which is reflected by alteration of heart rate variability indices. This study investigated whether such mechanism existed in fire...

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Main Authors: Li-Mei Liao, Salah S Al-Zaiti, Mary G Carey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-07-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312114545530

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