Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has been studied in a variety of clinical situations in order to quantify the modulations in the heart rate associated to different pathological conditions. Nevertheless, significant changes in spectral and some nonlinear parameters of the HRV were reported also in normal subjects, depending on age and gender. The aim of this work was to quantify the age-related differences in other nonlinear parameters, particularly in the fractal dimension, of the HRV of healthy subjects and to compare the results with the changes showed by spectral measures. The RR time series extracted by the Holter monitoring of 60 healthy subjects, divided into three groups similar for both age and gender, were accurately analyzed. The results only partially revealed age-related changes both in the spectral and fractal HRV measures, underlining the need to carefully examine the RR data selection and the pre-processing phases.

Impact of Aging on Heart Rate Variability Properties of Healthy Subjects

FORNASA, ELISA;ACCARDO, AGOSTINO;AJCEVIC, MILOŠ;CINQUETTI, MARTINO;MERLO, MARCO;SINAGRA, GIANFRANCO
2015-01-01

Abstract

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has been studied in a variety of clinical situations in order to quantify the modulations in the heart rate associated to different pathological conditions. Nevertheless, significant changes in spectral and some nonlinear parameters of the HRV were reported also in normal subjects, depending on age and gender. The aim of this work was to quantify the age-related differences in other nonlinear parameters, particularly in the fractal dimension, of the HRV of healthy subjects and to compare the results with the changes showed by spectral measures. The RR time series extracted by the Holter monitoring of 60 healthy subjects, divided into three groups similar for both age and gender, were accurately analyzed. The results only partially revealed age-related changes both in the spectral and fractal HRV measures, underlining the need to carefully examine the RR data selection and the pre-processing phases.
2015
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