The use of spectral measures of heart rate variability to differentiate between male snorers and patients with sleep apnoea syndrome

Anaesthesia

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 424-428

  Dworschak, M ^a   Maurer, J T ^b   Haschemian, T ^b   Rapp, H J ^b   Waschke, K F ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sleep apnoea syndrome: pre operative differentiation; Spectral heart rate variability: cardiac autonomic dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NIGHT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT CODING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SNORING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035001917     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2001.01961.x     Document Type: Article

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