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Scale invariance in the nonstationarity of human heart rate.

by: P. Bernaola-Galván, P. C. Ivanov, L. A. Nunes Amaral, H. E. Stanley
Physical review letters, Vol. 87, No. 16. (15 October 2001)  Key: citeulike:11897543

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We introduce a segmentation algorithm to probe the temporal organization of heterogeneities in human heartbeat interval time series. We find that the lengths of segments with different local mean heart rates follow a power-law distribution and show that this scale-invariant structure is not a simple consequence of the long-range correlations present in the data. The differences in mean heart rates between consecutive segments display a common functional form, but with different parameters for healthy individuals and for heart-failure patients. These findings suggest that there is relevant physiological information hidden in the heterogeneities of the heartbeat time series.


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