Autonomic components of poincare plots of heart rate variability

Poincare plot of heart rate variability: an approach towards explaining the cardiovascular autonomic function in obesity.

Obesity has been shown to affect cardiovascular function. Heart rate variability (HRV) has been an accepted method of measuring cardiovascular autonomic function. The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of obesity on HRV using Poincaré plot (POP) analysis. A finding of sympathovagal imbalance in pre-obese adults in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) could provide important diagnostic inf...

Heart Rate Variability, Heart Rate Recovery, and Heart Rate Turbulence Represent Different Components of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System

Atrial fibrillation detection by heart rate variability in Poincare plot

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is one of the prominent causes of stroke, and its risk increases with age. We need to detect AFib correctly as early as possible to avoid medical disaster because it is likely to proceed into a more serious form in short time. If we can make a portable AFib monitoring system, it will be helpful to many old people because we cannot predict when a patient wil...

Heart rate variability--a shape analysis of Lorenz plots.

A new quantitative geometrical method to analyse heart rate variability is presented. The standard image analysis techniques were applied to the grey scale images of Lorenz plots, and the outlines of the attractor areas were determined via a contour following procedure based on a maze walking algorithm. For graphs of simple compact shape, the attractor region contours were described in terms of...

Analysis of lagged Poincare plots in heart rate signals of women referred to meditation clinic

Poincare plots are commonly used to study nonlinear behaviour of physiologic signals. Analysis of Poincare plots for various lags can provide interesting insights into the autonomic control of the heart. Furthermore, the width of Poincare plots can be considered as a criterion of short-term variability in heart rate signals. The hypothesis that Poincare plot indexes of heart rate variability (H...