purpose: hypercapnia increases minute ventilation (v’e) with little effect on heart rate (hr), whereas hypoxia may increase hr without affecting v’e. however, the effects of hypercapnia and hypoxia on both heart rate variability (hrv) and the clustering of heart beats during spontaneous breathing (respiratory sinus arrhythmia – rsa), are not clear. methods: in this study, 10 human volunteers br...

abstract  introduction: diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic and endocrine disease. depressed heart rate variability (hrv) is an early warning sign of diabetic neuropathy. in numerous studies, spironolactone improved hrv and decreased mortality in congestive heart failure (chf). this study was performed to assess the effect of spironolactone on hrv in diabetic patients. methods: this ...

Based on psychophysiological research, coherent heart-brain interaction can change afferent cardiac signal pattern sent to the brain. Accordingly, the present study aimed at facilitating the emotion-cognition interaction through HeartMath Institute self-regulated emotional techniques to investigate the efficacy of heart-brain coherence on reading anxiety reduction that significantly enhances at...

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of the balance between sympathetic mediators of heart rate that is the effect of epinephrine and norepinephrine released from sympathetic nerve fibres acting on the sino-atrial and atrio-ventricular nodes which increase the rate of cardiac contraction and facilitate conduction at the atrio-ventricular node and parasympathetic mediators of heart rate tha...

In this paper, we have proposed vocalization of heart rate variability (HRV) as a perceptual analysis tool. We adapted a phonation-production model to encode external signals and generate audible representations of them. HRV changes, caused by induced perturbations to the autonomous nervous system, could be perceived on vocalized HRV. Keywords— Heart rate variability, voice perturbations, voice...

In this paper we investigated heart rate time series stored by implantable cardioverter defibrillators in order to the short-term forecast ventricular tachycardia (VT). Standard heart rate variability (HRV) parameters, compression based entropy functions, and HRV scaling characteristics (detrended fluctuation analysis, Higuchi’s fractal dimension) were analyzed in 29 VT time series and compared...