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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 274: H1099-H1105, 1998;
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Vol. 274, Issue 4, H1099-H1105, April 1998

Entropy measures of heart rate variation in conscious dogs

James A. Palazzolo1, Fawzy G. Estafanous2, and Paul A. Murray3

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 44106; and 2 Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and 3 Center for Anesthesiology Research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195

Our goal was to determine the contributions of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity to entropy measures of heart rate variability (HRV). We compared our results with two commonly used methods to analyze HRV: standard deviation (SDNN) and power spectral analysis (HF norm). Beat-by-beat analysis of R-R intervals was performed in conscious dogs. The R-R intervals were analyzed with approximate entropy (ApEn) and entropy of symbolic dynamics (SymDyn) to assess the effects of reducing system complexity. This was achieved by pharmacologically inhibiting sympathetic, parasympathetic, and total autonomic nervous system regulation of heart rate. Three conditions were examined: rest, standing, and systemic hypotension. At rest or standing, sympathetic inhibition (propranolol) had no effect on ApEn or SymDyn, whereas parasympathetic (atropine) and combined (propranolol + atropine) inhibition reduced both entropy measures to near zero. Systemic hypotension reduced both entropy measures in intact dogs. When hypotension was induced after sympathetic inhibition, ApEn was increased compared with hypotension alone, whereas parasympathetic inhibition with hypotension resulted in near-zero ApEn. Changes in the entropy measures of HRV were directionally similar to changes in SDNN and HF norm. These results indicate that the entropy of R-R intervals reflects parasympathetic modulation of heart rate.

approximate entropy; symbolic dynamics; autonomic nervous system; propranolol; atropine


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