Heart Rate Variability: Clinical Applications and Interaction between HRV and Heart Rate

• Main Author: Heikki Veli Huikuri (auth)
• Other Authors: Karin Trimmel (auth), Jerzy Sacha (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Physiology; Heart Rate; Autonomic Function; sympathetic and vagal control; baroreflex mechanisms; heart rate turbulence; spectral analysis; Sudden cardiac death; Heart rate variability; non-linear methods
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the last decades, assessment of heart rate variability (HRV) has increased in various fields of research. HRV describes changes in heartbeat intervals, which are caused by autonomic neural regulation, i.e. by the interplay of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. The most fre...