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Articles on Heart rate
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Tiny fluctuations in the time between each beat of your heart can provide clues about how much stress your body is experiencing.
Measuring the heart rate of animlas can reveal their changing emotional state, even when their behaviour stays the same.
Around 36% of people overestimate how much exercise they get daily.
A study found the emotional dynamic between young heterosexual partners can have a measurable physiological effect on men, but not on women.
Trying a new exercise routine? Strapping on a new wearable monitor? An expert in human physiology explains the ins and outs of your heart rate and why it’s a valuable number to understand.
Responding to pressure with your respiratory system.
Researchers are looking for ways to determine who’s most at risk for dementia and also ways to detect it early. A scientist who has studied low blood pressure makes a case for a link between the two.
Freedom of choice is a pillar of Western culture. But can too much of it be a bad thing?
Exercising at your maximal heart rate isn’t always effective. Training smarter, not harder, will make you fitter.
We don’t control our heart – it’s an involuntary muscle – but special pacemaker cells help keep it ticking away.
The adult heart rate should be between 60 and 100 beats per minute,but lots of factors can affect this.
Most people follow fixed time periods when it comes to recovery. The latest research calls this into question.
Heart-rate monitors can be accurate – as long as you don’t move.
Could it be all just a terrible misunderstanding? Researchers are increasingly turning to love to understand hate.
Atrial fibrillation is a condition that causes a
rapid and irregular heartbeat. The normal heart rate lies between 60 and 100 beats per minute.
An electric fan cools you down in extreme heat, but not if you’re old.
Sex can often be a pleasurable experience. But it also has benefits some reports have compared to those of exercise. So can sex really count as a workout?
The risk of developing an irregular heartbeat was 41% higher among those who were grieving a partner’s loss than among those who hadn’t experienced such loss. And this could last up to a year.
A new study looking at a long-lived lemur species attributes it to their frequent hibernation-like state. But what lessons can humans learn from this?
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Associate Professor of Health and Sport Science, University of Dayton
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Professor of Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics, Dean of Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University
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Lecturer in Biomedical Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor, Curtin School of Allied Health and Curtin enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Cardiologist, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Research assistant, Institute for Public Health, Aarhus University
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University
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Professor of Systems Science and Director, Clinical Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Medical doctor, PhD candidate in cardiology, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer of cardiology, Interventional Cardiologist, Aga Khan University Hospital
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Research Officer, Monash University
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
