AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 6 1722-H1726, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Power spectral analysis of heart rate variability in traumatic quadriplegic humans

K. Inoue, S. Miyake, M. Kumashiro, H. Ogata and O. Yoshimura
Department of Ergonomics, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.

This study investigated the spontaneous beat-to-beat variabilities in R-R intervals of six traumatic neurologically complete quadriplegic (QP) males and six age-matched healthy males (control) while they were at rest in the supine position in a climatic chamber (temperature 30 degrees C, relative humidity 60%) by means of autoregressive power spectral analysis. As shown by earlier studies, in the control group there were two major spectral components, a high-frequency (HF) component [center frequency 0.30 +/- 0.02 (SE) Hertz equivalent (Hz eq), power 767.5 +/- 384.6 ms2] and a low-frequency (LF) component (0.11 +/- 0.01 Hz eq, 707.5 +/- 198.8 ms2). On the contrary, in the QP group, only the HF component was observed (0.30 +/- 0.02 Hz eq, 421.8 +/- 134.7 ms2). The results suggest that 1) the disappearance of the LF component in the QP subject is presumably caused by the interruption of the spinal pathways linking supraspinal cardiovascular centers with the peripheral sympathetic outflow, and 2) the cervical spinal sympathetic pathways may be instrumental in the genesis of the LF component in humans.

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