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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 280: H1081-H1087, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 3, H1081-H1087, March 2001

Effects of exercise and passive head-up tilt on fractal and complexity properties of heart rate dynamics

Mikko P. Tulppo1,3, Richard L. Hughson1, Timo H. Mäkikallio2,3, K. E. Juhani Airaksinen2, Tapio Seppänen2, and Heikki V. Huikuri2

1 Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada; 2 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Oulu; and 3 Merikoski Rehabilitation and Research Center, Oulu 90100, Finland

tk;1Passive head-up tilt and exercise result in specific changes in the spectral characteristics of heart rate (HR) variability as a result of reduced vagal and enhanced sympathetic outflow. Recently analytic methods based on nonlinear system theory have been developed to characterize the nonlinear features in HR dynamics. This study was designed to assess the changes in the fractal and complexity measures of HR behavior during the passive head-up tilt and during exercise. Fractal exponent (alpha 1) and approximate entropy (ApEn), measures of short-term correlation properties and overall complexity of HR, respectively, along with spectral components of HR variability were analyzed during a passive head-up tilt test (n = 10) and a low-intensity steady-state exercise (n = 20) in healthy subjects. We observed that alpha 1 increased during the tilt test (from 0.85 ± 0.22 to 1.48 ± 0.20; P < 0.001) and during the exercise (from 1.00 ± 0.22 to 1.37 ± 0. 14; P < 0.001). ApEn also increased during the exercise (from 1.04 ± 0.11 to 1. 11 ± 0.08; P < 0.05), but it did not change during the tilt test. The normalized high-frequency spectral component decreased and the low-frequency component increased similarly during both the exercise and the tilt test (P < 0.001 for all). Exercise and passive tilt result in an increase of short-term fractal correlation properties of HR dynamics, which is related to changes in the balance between the low- and high-frequency oscillations in controlled situations. Overall complexity of HR dynamics increases during exercise but not during passive tilt.

variability; approximate entropy; detrended fluctuation analysis


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