Heart Rate Fragmentation: A New Approach to the Analysis of Cardiac Interbeat Interval Dynamics

Background: Short-term heart rate variability (HRV) is most commonly attributed to physiologic vagal tone modulation. However, with aging and cardiovascular disease, the emergence of high short-term HRV, consistent with the breakdown of the neuroautonomic-electrophysiologic control system, may confo...

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Main Authors: Madalena D. Costa, Roger B. Davis, Ary L. Goldberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2017.00255/full