Heart rate asymmetry by Poincaré plots of RR intervals
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering
- Vol. 51 (4), 272-275
- https://doi.org/10.1515/bmt.2006.054
Abstract
The Poincaré plot is a widely used method for visualizing and calculating heart rate variability and for investigating the oscillatory nature of heart action. We show that the Poincaré plot produced using physiological data for RR intervals is asymmetric. This suggests that the processes of heart rate acceleration (shortening of consecutive RR intervals) and deceleration (prolongation of successive RR intervals) might be asymmetric. To investigate this phenomenon, we define descriptors quantifying the heart rate asymmetry and present the results of a study involving 5-min ECG recordings of 50 healthy subjects in which, despite of the shortness of the recordings, the asymmetry is clearly visible.Keywords
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