Extraction of autonomic nervous system-related components from heart rate variability during cycle exercise by time–frequency analysis
✍ Scribed by Kazunori Ohtani; Tohru Kiryu; Yoshiaki Saitoh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 624 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0882-1666
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✦ Synopsis
Spectrum analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) is used as an evaluation method for autonomic nervous system function. In the spectrum analysis of HRV, the components from about 0.04 Hz to 0.15 Hz, called the low-frequency (LF) components, and the components from 0.15 Hz to 0.5 Hz synchronized to the respiration frequency, called the high-frequency (HF) components, are considered interesting.Those two components are interpreted as reflecting the activities of the autonomic nervous system. It is anticipated that the activities of the autonomic nervous system may be modified by exercise or may exhibit discontinuous changes. In such cases, conventional spectrum analysis is not sufficient to derive information concerning the activities of the autonomic nervous system. This paper presents a method in which the time variations of the amplitudes and the frequencies of the LF and HF components are estimated. The effectiveness of the method is verified by experiment.