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The effects of exposure to environmental factors on Heart Rate Variability: an ecological perspective

Izhak Schnell1, Oded Potchter, Yoram Epstein

  • 1Geography and Human Environment Department, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
|March 13, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Environmental discomfortEnvironmental stressorsHeart Rate VariabilityPersonal exposure

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