Chaotic signatures of heart rate variability and its power spectrum in health, aging and heart failure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Guo Qiang ^a   Arzeno, Natalia M ^b,c   Shen, Lin Lin ^a   Tang, Da Kan ^a   Zheng, Da An ^a   Zhao, Nai Qing ^a   Eckberg, Dwain L ^d   Poon, Chi Sang ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; NOISE TITRATION ASSAY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84887212563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004323     Document Type: Article

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