Circadian Patterns of Heart Rate Turbulence Heart Rate Variability and Their Relationship

摘要

BackgroundHeart rate variability (HRV) is an established tool for studying cardiac autonomic activity over time, while heart rate turbulence (HRT) is a recent method used to assess autonomic dysfunction. However, there are different autonomic tones at different times of a day. This study aimed to examine the effect of circadian change of autonomic tone on heart rate turbulence and variability, and determine any relationship between them based on circadian variations.