HEART RATE VARIABILITY ANALYSIS OF NORMAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS In YOUNG ADULTS

Abstract

The heart is electrically stimulated by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) through newlinesympathetic and parasympathetic branches. The balancing action of these two branches newlineresults into modulation of the Heart Rate (HR). The fluctuation of the HR over time may yield newlineabundant information about cardiac health, which is defined as Heart Rate Variability (HRV) newlineanalysis. Thus, HRV analysis has the ability to assess the cardiac health as well as the state of newlineANS modulating cardiac activity. newlineA wide range of clinical applications of HRV is available in the literature including cardio- newlinevascular diseases, diabetes, neuropsychiatric disorders, depression, sleep disorders etc.. At the newlinesame time, age, gender, height, weight, BMI related differences; socio-ethnic cardiovascular newlinedifferences are also reported in some HRV analysis. Still, the field is wide open and there is a newlineneed to explore HRV analysis under various influencing factors, be it clinical, environmental newlineor statistical. newline