Utilizing Entropy to Systematically Quantify the Resting-Condition Baroreflex Regulation Function

Bo-Yuan Li, Xiao-Yang Li, Xia Lu, Rui Kang, Zhao-Xing Tian, Feng Ling and Siew Ann Cheong

Complexity, 2024, vol. 2024, 1-21

Abstract: Baroreflex is critical to maintain blood pressure homeostasis, and the quantification of baroreflex regulation function (BRF) can provide guidance for disease diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare. Current quantification of BRF such as baroreflex sensitivity cannot represent BRF systematically. From the perspective of complex systems, we regard that BRF is the emergence result of fluctuate states and interactions in physiological mechanisms. Therefore, the three-layer emergence is studied in this work, which is from physiological mechanisms to physiological indexes and then to BRF. On this basis, since the entropy in statistical physics macroscopically measures the fluctuations of system’s states, in this work, the principle of maximum entropy is adopted, and a new index called PhysioEnt is proposed to quantify the fluctuations of four physiological indexes, i.e., baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate, heart rate variability, and systolic blood pressure, which aims to represent BRF in the resting condition. Further, two datasets with different subjects are analyzed, and some new findings can be obtained, such as the contributions of the physiological interactions among organs/tissues. With measurable indexes, the proposed method is expected to support individualized medicine.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1155/2024/5514002

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