DFA on Cardiac Rhythm: Fluctuation of the Heartbeat Interval Contain Useful Information for the Risk of Mortality in Both, Animal Models and Humans

We analyzed the heartbeat interval to test the possibility that the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) distinguishes a sick condition from a healthy condition of the cardiac control network. The healthy heart exhibited exponents ranging from 0.8 to 1.0 in both, animal models and humans. In the sic...

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Main Authors: Toru Yazawa, Katsunori Tanaka, Tomoo Katsuyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2007-02-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:
DFA
EKG
Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P461766.pdf