MOTIVATION: The high frequency (HF) indices of heart rate variability (HRV), which reflect the magnitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), have been repeatedly used as measures of cardiac vagal tone...
Keywords: Heart rate variability, high frequency component, cardiac parasympathetic control
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: The objective of our study was to find out whether obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may be detected on ECGs recorded during sleep. METHODS: We have analyzed 70 eight-hour single-channel ECG recordings taken at polysomnographia...
Keywords: Sleep apnea, ECG analysis, Heart rate variability
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: Heart-rate variability (HRV) is an interesting tool for assessing cardiac autonomic system control, but nonstationarities raise problematic issues...
Keywords: Empirical mode decomposition, Heart rate variability, sympatho-vagal balance
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: A non-invasive method to monitor the functioning of the autonomous nervous system consists in heart rate variability (HRV) analysis...
Keywords: Heart rate variability, autonomous nervous system, linear and nonlinear analysis, approximate entropy
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: Ventricular tachycardia (VT) provoking sudden cardiac death (SCD) are a major cause of mortality in the developed countries...
Keywords: Implantable cardioverter defibrillators, Heart rate variability, Nonlinear Dynamics
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: Complex physiological systems, such as the cardiovascular system, controlled by the autonomic nervous system, and the gait and posture system, controlled by the sensomotor nervous system, incorporate several controllers acting at different time scales...
Keywords: complexity, autonomic information flow, Heart rate variability, gait information flow
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: The objective of our study is to investigate extrinsic influences on heart rate variability using respiratory-phase domain analysis...
Keywords: Heart rate variability, respiratory phase, respiratory sinus arrhythmia
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: To estimate age of healthy subjects by means of the heart rate variability (HRV) parameters thus assessing the potentiality of HRV indexes as a biomarker of age...
Keywords: Age prediction, Heart rate variability
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: This paper examines the operational characteristics of the multivariate autoregressive analysis applied to the simultaneous recordings of the instantaneous heart rate (IHR) and the change in systolic blood pressure (SBP)...
Keywords: autonomic nervous system, Heart rate variability, blood pressure, feedback analysis, multivariate autoregressive model, operational characteristics
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerIn the last two decades conventional linear methods for biosignal analysis have been substantially extended by non-stationary, non-linear, and complexity approaches...
Keywords: autonomic information flow, complexity, gait information flow, Heart rate variability, autonomer Informationsfluss, Gang-Informationsfluss, Herzfrequenzvariabilität, Komplexität
07/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterIn recent years the analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) has become a suitable method for characterizing autonomous cardiovascular regulation...
Keywords: Elektrokardiogramm, Extraktionsalgorithmus, Herzratenvariabilität, Schlag-zu-Schlag-Intervall
07/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterKeywords: heart rate, Heart rate variability, ultradian rhythms
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterWithin 5 years of first diagnosis, nearly 60% of patients with heart failure (HF) suffer from cardiac death...
Keywords: blood pressure variability, cardiovascular disease, Heart rate variability
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterCoronary artery occlusions related to myocardial ischemia drive cardiac control system reactions that may lead to heart failure...
Keywords: angioplasty, cardiac ischemia, complex systems, fractal analysis, Heart rate variability
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterKeywords: autonomic information flow, complexity, Heart rate variability, risk stratification
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterIn the context of HRV analysis, we evaluated the information content of two measures that can easily be derived from the classical RR time-domain indexes...
Keywords: cardiac sympathetic index, Heart rate variability, LF/HF, Poincaré plot
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterCardiac arrhythmia is currently investigated from two different points of view. One considers ECG biosignal analysis and investigates heart rate variability, baroreflex control, heart rate turbulence, alternans phenomena, etc...
Keywords: ECG, Heart rate variability, myocardial cell models
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterWe assessed the clinical correlates of a comprehensive set of non-linear heart rate variability (HRV) indices computed from 24-h Holter recordings for 200 stable chronic heart failure (CHF) patients [median age (lower quartile, upper quartile) 54 (47, 58) years, LVEF 23% (19%, 28%)]...
Keywords: chronic heart failure, Heart rate variability, non-linear dynamics
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterThis study examines the utility of recurrence analysis in the field of sleep apnea detection from heart rate series...
Keywords: ECG, Heart rate variability, recurrence plot, Sleep apnea
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterIn this paper we use the concept of large-scale dimension densities to analyze heart rate variability data...
Keywords: congestive heart failure, correlation dimension, Heart rate variability
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterMultiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is the failure of several organs after a trigger event...
Keywords: age, baroreflex sensitivity, chemoreflex sensitivity, Heart rate variability, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterThe Poincaré plot is a widely used method for visualizing and calculating heart rate variability and for investigating the oscillatory nature of heart action...
Keywords: heart rate acceleration, heart rate deceleration, Heart rate variability, Poincaré plots
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterAnalysis of heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) and baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) has become a proven tool in clinical cardiovascular diagnostics and risk stratification...
Keywords: Animal model, baroreceptor sensitivity, blood pressure variability, cardiovascular characterization, Heart rate variability, non-linear dynamics
02/2007 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterAnimal models of cardiovascular diseases allow to investigate relevant pathogenetic mechanisms in detail...
Keywords: baroreflex sensitivity, blood pressure variability, familiar hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Heart rate variability
02/2007 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterHeart rate variability (HRV) is a marker of autonomous activity in the heart. An important application of HRV measures is the stratification of mortality risk after myocardial infarction...
Keywords: Burrows-Wheeler compression, Bzip2, decision tree, entropy estimation, Heart rate variability
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterHeart rate variability (HRV) reflects regulatory processes of the cardiovascular system and reveals fractal characteristics...
Keywords: detrended fluctuation analysis, Heart rate variability, overtraining
10/2006 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterIn this letter, we explain the role of acceleration and deceleration capacities as novel risk predictors after myocardial infarction and their relation to the occurrence of ventricular premature complexes.
Keywords: deceleration capacity, ECG analysis, Heart rate variability, risk stratification, ventricular premature beats, EKG-Analyse, Herzratenvariabilitt, Risikostratifizierung, ventrikulre Extrasystolen
06/2007 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de GruyterIn order to evaluate blood pressure- and heart rate variability as a potent diagnostic tool for different hypertensive pregnancy disorders we started a clinical trial recording these variables in early pregnancies predisposed for preeclampsia...
Keywords: blood pressure variability, eclampsia, grand mal seizure, Heart rate variability, pregnancy
11/2004 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: autonomic nervous system, baroreceptor reflex, Heart rate variability, maturation, premature, respiratory modulation
08/2006 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de GruyterKeywords: autonomic nervous system, fetal magnetocardiography, fetal state, Heart rate variability, sympatho-vagal balance
09/2008 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de GruyterThe aim of this study was to identify precursors of neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS) in ECG parameters of children and adolescents who undergo head-up tilt testing (HUTT)...
Keywords: head-up tilt test, Heart rate variability, joint recurrence, non-linear dynamics, syncope
06/2008 | Biomedizinische Technik, Walter de Gruyter