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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gomolka RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110872 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in physiology 20180821
Analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) can be applied to assess the autonomic nervous system (ANS) sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. Since living systems are non-linear, evaluation of ANS activity is difficult by means of linear methods. We propose to apply the Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD) method for assessment of ANS activity. HFD measures complexity of the HRV signal. We analyzed 45 RR time series of 84 min duration each from nine healthy and five diabetic subjects with clinically ...[more]