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Familiality of heart rate and cardiac-related autonomic activity in five-month-old twins: the Québec newborn twins study.
Psychophysiology - 1 Nov 2003
Dubreuil Etienne, Ditto Blaine, Dionne Ginette, Pihl Robert O, Tremblay Richard E, Boivin Michel, Pérusse Daniel
Abstract excerpt
The familiality of infant sleeping heart rate (HR) and cardiac-related autonomic activity, as indexed by spectral analysis of HR variability (HRV) and response to postural change, was investigated in 322 5-month-old twin pairs. The postural change elicited only minor changes in cardiovascular activity. As a result, analyses focused on supine cardiovascular activity. Multivariate genetic modeling indicated that...
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