Purpose: To assess the physiological meanings of the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) slope α and its relationship to spectral measures in heart rate variability, this study investigated changes of α and its corresponding spectral measures over various night-sleep stages.
Methods: The overall DFA α and natural-logarithm-transformed power values of the spectral parameters ln[high-frequency (HF)], ln[low-frequency (LF)], and ln[very-low-frequency (VLF)], and their relationship from one 5-min proper electrocardiography segment in each of pre-sleep-wakefulness (AWK), non-rapid eye movement stage 2 (N2), slow-wave (N3), the first and the latest rapid-eye movement sleep (REM1, and REM2), were computed in 93 otherwise healthy males (44.1 ± 7.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat
August 2015
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