To study heart beat pulse wave propagation in real time and to evaluate the vascular blood flow resistance an important physiological parameter for vascular diagnostics. Photoplethysmography is a non-invasive technique that measures relative blood volume changes in the blood vessels close to the skin. PPG analysis emphasizes the importance of early evaluation of the diseases We present the resu...

In this paper heartbeat interval extraction methods using Doppler radar are reviewed. While single channel CW radar offers simple architecture and signal processing, this method is very sensitive to subject position. Quadrature radio architecture is used to overcome this limitation. The use of linear and non-linear demodulation methods was explored for heartbeat interval extraction, and it was ...

Photoplethysmograph is a simple and cost effective method to assess cardiovascular related parameters such as heart rate, arterial blood oxygen saturation, BP the fact that the Photoplethysmograph (PPG) signal caries respiratory information. Earlier physicians used to insert separate sensors to assess respiration and heart rate. In this present work, an efficient algorithm is presented, based o...

The heart rhythm is directly related to the electrical activity of the heart. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is generally used for obtaining information about the heart rhythm. In this paper, a method for calculating heart rhythm variation using the Phonocardiogram (PCG) and a method for finding characteristics of the that signal is described. The average heart rate is calculated from the Shannon ener...

continuous telemetric ecg monitoring     soltanzadeh l 1 , taheria 2 , reabiee m 3 *     received: 29 may , 2013 accepted: 9 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : diabetes mellitus is becoming a major public health problem. telecare can improve the quality of diabetes care by altering the caring environment and care delivery process.   the electrocardiogram (ecg) is the recording of the...

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a well known method that can be used to measure Heart Rate Variability (HRV). This paper describes a procedure for processing electrocardiogram signals (ECG) to detect Heart Rate Variability (HRV). In recent years, there have been wide-ranging studies on Heart rate variability in ECG signals and analysis of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA). Normally the Heart ra...

a periodic increase in blood pressure (bp) occurs during apneic episodes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (osa). several factors including hypoxemia and an increase in heart rate (hr) were reported to be responsible for this increased bp. to examine the contribution of these two factors in increasing bp, 35 healthy male subjects (mean age±sd= 23.64±3.80) were studied in three experiment...

objective: for many years in herbal medicine the antihypertensive and lowering blood lipid properties of achillea wilhelmsii (a. wilhelmsii) have been suggested. in the present study the impacts of the plant extract on rabbit’s blood pressure and heart rate have been investigated. materials and methods: twelve nwz rabbits weighed 2-3 kg were randomly divided into two groups of 6 rabbits. the te...

background: at the present time, massage has become a popular therapy employed in complementary medicine. there is evidence showing that back massage might have many positive psychological effects, possibly due to having many autonomic nervous system afferent inputs. one of the frequent positions during massage is prone position. however, there has been limited research investigating the effect...

conclusions the mean heart rate was higher in participants who were overweight than those with normal weight. results the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in the hot climatic condition and moderate exercise were 103.84 (3.34) for normal weight subjects and 108.67 (3.27) for overweight subjects. the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in a very hot climatic condition and l...