Preadolescents exhibit specific sleep-related heart rate variations that differ from adults, likely due to developmental variations in autonomic cardiac control.
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Should not yet alter pediatric sleep monitoring; hypothesis-generating for developmental autonomic influences on later cardiovascular risk.
Pivik et al. (1996) studied this question.
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