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

• Autor principal: Heikki Veli Huikuri (auth)
• Altres autors: Karin Trimmel (auth), Jerzy Sacha (auth)
• Format: Electrònic Capítol de llibre
• Idioma: anglès
• Publicat: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Col·lecció: Frontiers Research Topics
• Matèries: 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
• Accés en línia: 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...