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ArticleBiomedicines2025

The Acute Effects of Varying Frequency and Pulse Width of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial.

Peter Atanackov, Jakob Peterlin, Maja Derlink, Uroš Kovačič, Nataša Kejžar, Fajko F Bajrović

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Article in Biomedicines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and exercise-induced autonomic regulation: a systematic review.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Peter AtanackovInstitute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška Cesta 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Jakob PeterlinInstitute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov Trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0009-0006-0437-946X
Maja DerlinkInstitute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška Cesta 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Uroš KovačičInstitute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška Cesta 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-9619-297X
Nataša KejžarInstitute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov Trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-3069-9863
Fajko F BajrovićInstitute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška Cesta 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-4274-9477

Funding

The Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency P3-0171, P3-0154, and young researcher grant to Peter Atanackov
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

auricular stimulationautonomic cardiac regulationautonomic nervous systemhealthy subjectsheart rate variability (HRV)neuromodulationstimulation parameterstranscutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS)

Identifiers

PMID40149675
PMCPMC11940630

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