Correlation of sleep EEG frequency bands and heart rate variability

Author

Abdullah, Haslaile ; Holland, Gerard ; Cosic, Irena ; Cvetkovic, Dean

Author_Institution

Sci. Eng. & Technol., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

5014

Lastpage

5017

Abstract

Sleep apnoea is a sleep breathing disorder which causes changes in cardiac and neuronal activity and discontinuities in sleep pattern when observed via electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG). This paper presents a pilot study result of assessing the correlation between EEG frequency bands and ECG heart rate variability (HRV) in normal and sleep apnoea human clinical patients at different sleep stages. In sleep apnoea patients, the results have shown that EEG delta, sigma and beta bands exhibited a strong correlation with cardiac HRV parameters at different sleep stages.

Keywords

electrocardiography; electroencephalography; neurophysiology; pneumodynamics; sleep; ECG; beta band; cardiac HRV parameters; electrocardiogram; electroencephalogram; heart rate variability; neuronal activity; sigma band; sleep EEG frequency bands; sleep apnoea; sleep breathing disorder; sleep pattern discontinuity; Electroencephalography; Female; Heart Rate; Humans; Male; Sleep Apnea Syndromes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334607

Filename

5334607