Heart rate variability is augmented in patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea, but only supine LF/HF index correlates with its severity

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 359-367

  Flevari, Aikaterini ^a,b   Vagiakis, Emmanouil ^a   Zakynthinos, Spyridon ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arousals; Body posture; Heart rate variability; Positional obstructive sleep apnea; Time and frequency domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOPNEA INDEX; LOW FREQUENCY HIGH FREQUENCY SPECTRAL COMPONENT INDEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP STAGE; SUPINE POSITION; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 84957379097     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-014-1029-2     Document Type: Article

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