No evidence of chaos in the heart rate variability of normal and cardiac transplant human subjects.

Introduction: The variability observed in the heart rate may reflect fundamental aspects of cardiac activity. It has been under discussion whether heart rate variability (HRV) is due to noise or chaos, which is irregular behavior occurring; in deterministic nonlinear systems. Methods and Results: Us...

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Published in:Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 1350 - 1358
Main Authors: Costa M, Pimentel IR, Santiago T, Sarreira P, Melo J, Ducla-Soares E
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct1999
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