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Analysis of the heart rate variability using stress tests

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A new parameter, CS n (t) (CardStress), a quantitative characteristic of the changes in the cardiovascular regulatory mechanisms based on the relative decrease in the heart rate variability during a functional test, is proposed. Analysis of the heart rate variability was performed in patients exposed to non-steady-state (acutely increasing) normobaric hypoxic hypoxia induced by rebreathing. The new parameter was compared with traditional methods used to analyze tachograms (such as the windowed Fourier spectral transform and histograms).

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    S. V. Bozhokin

  2. Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, 194044, Russia

    I. M. Shchenkova

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Bozhokin, I.M. Shchenkova, 2008, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 80–87.

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Bozhokin, S.V., Shchenkova, I.M. Analysis of the heart rate variability using stress tests. Hum Physiol 34, 461–467 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119708040105

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