Age effects upon the harmonic structure of human blood pressure in clinical health

Author

Anderson, Steve ; Cornélissen, Germaine ; Halberg, Franz ; Scarpelli, Paolo T. ; Cagnoni, Stefano ; Germanó, Giuseppe ; Livi, Riccardo ; Scarpelli, Luca ; Cagnoni, Mario ; Holte, James E.

Author_Institution

Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

26-27 Jun 1989

Firstpage

238

Lastpage

243

Abstract

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring of 180 clinically healthy adults of both genders is used to investigate and compare ultradian aspects of systolic and diastolic blood pressure as a function of age. Three age categories are considered: 20-40, 40-60, and over 60 years of age. results from least-squares spectra of each data series are further examined by analysis of variance. Gender and age effects are found to characterize the waveform of human blood pressure. These effects can be quantified by spectral analysis and may represent gauges of aging

Keywords

computerised monitoring; haemodynamics; least squares approximations; medical computing; spectral analysis; 20 to 60 yr; age effects; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; analysis of variance; genders; least-squares; spectral analysis; ultradian aspects; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Circadian rhythm; Computerized monitoring; Frequency; Hardware; Heart rate; Humans; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems,1989. Proceedings., Second Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1960-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMSYS.1989.47383

Filename

47383