Heart Rate Recovery and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

To the Editor,

I have read, with great interest, the article entitled “Influence of Smoking Consumption and Nicotine Dependence Degree in Cardiac Autonomic Modulation” by Santos et al., recently published in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 2016; 106: 510-8. The reseearchers reported that only the intensity of smoking consumption had influences over cardiac autonomic modulation of the evaluated smokers. Smokers with severe smoking consumption intensity presented worse autonomic modulation than moderate ones.

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