The effect of respiratory oscillations in heart rate on detrended fluctuation analysis

Rathinaswamy B. Govindan (), Srinivas Kota, Tareq Al-Shargabi, Christopher B. Swisher and Adre du Plessis
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Rathinaswamy B. Govindan: Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System
Srinivas Kota: Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System
Tareq Al-Shargabi: Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System
Christopher B. Swisher: Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System
Adre du Plessis: Division of Fetal and Transitional Medicine, Fetal Medicine Institute, Children’s National Health System

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2017, vol. 90, issue 10, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Characterization of heart rate using detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is impeded by respiratory oscillations. In particular, the short-term exponent measured from 15 to 30 beats is compromised in the DFA. We reconstruct respiratory signal from electrocardiograms and attenuate the respiratory oscillation in the heart rate using a frequency-dependent subtraction approach. We validate this method by applying it to an electrocardiogram signal simulated using a coupled differential equation with the respiratory oscillation modelled using a sine function. The exponent estimated using the proposed approach agreed with the exponent incorporated in the model within a narrow range. In contrast, the exponent obtained from the raw data deviated from the expected value. Furthermore, the exponents obtained for the raw heart rate are smaller than the exponents obtained for the respiration oscillation attenuated heart rate. We apply this approach to heart rate measured from 12 preterm infants that were being treated for prematurity related complications. As observed in the simulated data, we show that compared to the raw heart rate, the respiratory oscillation attenuated heart rate shows higher short-term exponent (p

Keywords: Statistical; and; Nonlinear; Physics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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