Abstract
Heart rate variability (HRV) is frequently used to measure autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. However, little is known about the mechanism underlying pharmacologically induced changes in HRV. Previous research has shown that nicotine exposure stimulates the ANS, mediating a wide spectrum of physiological and behavioral effects, including altered respiratory sinus arrhythmia and enhanced arousal and attention. Using Lomb-Welch periodograms, the effect of nicotine on the ANS in 14 nicotinenaive human subjects are studied. Results showed an increase in the low frequency (LF) to high frequency (HF) ratio with little change in mean heart rate. Results suggest that nicotine affects both sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivities and that the LF/HF best characterizes early ANS activated nicotine changes in HRV. The Lomb-Welch periodogram of the HRV is also compared to the conventional interpolated Welch periodogram. The attenuation of the high frequency components due to interpolation of the non-uniform R-R intervals is found to be a function of the power of the high frequency components, increasing with increasing power. Thus analyses using Welch periodograms that make use of the high frequency components may yield erroneous results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 294-297 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
Volume | 26 I |
State | Published - 2004 |
Event | Conference Proceedings - 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2004 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Sep 1 2004 → Sep 5 2004 |
Keywords
- Autonomic regulation
- Heart rate variability
- Lomb transform
- Lomb-Welch periodogram
- Nicotine
- Welch periodogram
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics