CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF HEART RATE VARIABILITY
Keywords:
heart rate variability, heart attack, HRVAbstract
Although HRV has been the subject of many clinical studies targeting a wide range of cardiac and non-cardiac diseases and clinical conditions, consensus on the practical application of HRV in medicine has been achieved in only two clinical scenarios. A decrease in HRV can be used as a predictor of risk after acute myocardial infarction and as an early sign of the development of diabetic neuropathy.
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