Title :
Age-dependent changes in the manifestations of gender-related differences in the cardiovascular regulation
Author :
Mueller, Andre ; Bonnemeier, Hendrik ; Malberg, Hagen ; Kurths, J. ; Wessel, Niels
Author_Institution :
Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Previous studies analyzed the age-dependence of cardiovascular parameters in females and males. Their obtained results agree that the complexity of the studied signals as well as the differences between females and males decrease with increasing age. According to this study, we can confirm these findings. Additionally, by using nonlinear methods from the field of symbolic dynamics, we were able to detect significant differences between the female and male subjects of older age on the basis of the heart rate variability.
Keywords :
blood pressure measurement; cardiovascular system; age-dependent changes; cardiovascular parameters; cardiovascular regulation; female subjects; heart rate variability; male subjects; nonlinear methods; symbolic dynamics; Complexity theory; Frequency measurement; Heart rate variability; Time measurement; Time series analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO), 2014 8th Conference of the European Study Group on
Conference_Location :
Trento
DOI :
10.1109/ESGCO.2014.6847562