Effect of gender and diabetes on major depressive disorder using heart rate asymmetry

Chandan K Karmakar, Herbert Jelinek, Paul Warner, Ahsan H Khandoker, Marimuthu Palaniswami

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Abstract

In this study, we have investigated how heart rate asymmetry (HRA) changes in major depressive disorder (MDD) subjects with comorbid diabetes as well as in male and female. Depression score was determined based on PHQ-9 questionnaire and from 135 subjects 70 subjects were selected with 1000 or more RR intervals. Heart rate asymmetry is a Poincaré plot based nonlinear technique to analyze the asymmetry using RR interval time-series signal. Three commonly used HRA indices Guzik's index (GI), Porta's index (PI) and Ehlers' index (EI) were used to understand the changes in HRA in MDD. Results indicate significantly (p<;0.05) different GI and EI values between `Dep' and `NonDep' subgroups in `Combined' group. All three HRA indices are found significantly different in presence of depression in female subjects. These results provide better understanding about changes in HRA in MDD and HRA indices could be a plausible nonlinear HRV feature for differentiating Depression `Dep' from NonDepression `NonDep' group - i) without comorbid diabetes; ii) in Female subjects.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Place of PublicationUnited States
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages6679-6682
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) - Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Chicago, United States
Duration: 26 Aug 201430 Aug 2014
https://web.archive.org/web/20140621102347/http://embc.embs.org/2014/ (Archived page)

Conference

Conference2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Abbreviated titleDiscovering, Innovating, and Engineering Future Biomedicine
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period26/08/1430/08/14
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