Cardiac autonomic neuropathy associated alteration of sympatho-vagal balance through the tone entropy analysis of heart periods

A. H. Khandoker, Herbert Jelinek, M. Palaniswami

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Abstract

This study presents the usefulness of tone-entropy (T-E) analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) using short term ECG recordings (~20 minutes) for screening the degree of severity (mild, definite and severe) of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN). Tone reflects sympathovagal balance whose validity has been already examined on typical physiological cases. Entropy which is the autonomic regularity activity was evaluated though Shannon entropy of HRV. Both indexes were defined on a distribution of successive variations of heart periods. The results showed that the tone was high and the entropy was low in the definite group compared with the early and normal group. When the result was plotted in twodimensional T-E space, it revealed a curve-linear relation between the tone and entropy. The findings could form the basis of a cheap and non-invasive test for screening CAN in patients with or without diabetes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication36th CinC 2009
EditorsIEEE Staff
Place of PublicationUSA
PublisherIEEE
Pages373-375
Number of pages3
Publication statusPublished - 2009
EventComputers in Cardiology - Park City, Utah
Duration: 13 Sept 200916 Sept 2009

Conference

ConferenceComputers in Cardiology
Period13/09/0916/09/09

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