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Robustness evaluation of heart rate variability measures for age gender related autonomic changes in healthy volunteers

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Abstract

To analyze motion artifact’s affect on HRV measures, the age/gender related autonomic changes were investigated by using different HRV measures from wearable medical devices under ambulatory home-monitoring condition. Twelve healthy undergraduates and 20 healthy elderly subjects participated in the research. The electrocardiogram data was collected by using waist-worn device developed by us. Ten HRV measures were used to analyze the age-related automatic change including linear and nonlinear HRV indexes. Many linear HRV indexes were seriously contaminated by motion artefact, and did not reflect the age-related autonomic change. The approximate entropy (p < 0.001) was the best indicator among 10 HRV indexes. However, the approximate entropy was also contaminated by motion artefact and did not reflect the gender-related autonomic change. The study verified the hypothesis that the HRV measures could be contaminated under ambulatory monitoring condition. It is importance for ambulatory home-monitoring to study the robustness of HRV measures.

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    Guanzheng Liu, Qian Wang, GuangMin Zhou, WenHui Chen & YuanYu Wu

  2. Jiu Jiang No. 1 People’s Hospital, Jiujiang, China

    ShiXiong Chen

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Liu, G., Wang, Q., Chen, S. et al. Robustness evaluation of heart rate variability measures for age gender related autonomic changes in healthy volunteers. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med 37, 567–574 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-014-0281-x

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Keywords

  • HRV
  • Robustness
  • Ambulatory monitoring
  • Motion artefact