Modeling Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Humans: A Turbulence Analogy
- 19 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (8), 1650-1653
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.1650
Abstract
Many complex systems share similar statistical characteristics. In this Letter, a turbulence analogy is proposed for the long-term heart rate variability of healthy humans. Based on such an analogy, the equivalence of an inertial range is found and a cascade model, which captures the statistical properties of the heart rate data, is given.Keywords
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