@inproceedings{1fb67f164cd04b06867bea5a310cd1f9,
title = "New results in magnitude and sign correlations in heartbeat fluctuations for healthy persons and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients",
abstract = "Heartbeat fluctuations exhibit temporal structure with fractal and nonlinear features that reflect changes in the neuroautonomic control. In this work we have used the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to analyze heartbeat (RR) intervals of 54 healthy subjects and 40 patients with congestive heart failure during 24 hours; we separate time series for sleep and wake phases. We observe long-range correlations in time series of healthy persons and CHF patients. However, the correlations for CHF patients are weaker than the correlations for healthy persons; this fact has been reported by Ashkenazy et al. [1] but with a smaller group of subjects. In time series of CHF patients there is a crossover, it means that the correlations for high and low frequencies are different, but in time series of healthy persons there are not crossovers even if they are sleeping. These crossovers are more pronounced for CHF patients in the sleep phase. We decompose the heartbeat interval time series into magnitude and sign series, we know that these kinds of signals can exhibit different time organization for the magnitude and sign and the magnitude series relates to nonlinear properties of the original time series, while the sign series relates to the linear properties. Magnitude series are long-range correlated, while the sign series are anticorrelated. Newly, the correlations for healthy persons are different that the correlations for CHF patients both for magnitude and sign time series. In the paper of Ashkenazy et al. they proposed the empirical relation: αsign ≈ 1/2(αoriginal + αmagnitude) for the short-range regime (high frequencies), however, we have found a different relation that in our calculations is valid for short and long-range regime: αsign ≈ 1/4(αoriginal + αmagnitude).",
keywords = "Heart dynamics, Nonlinear dynamics",
author = "{Mu{\~n}oz Diosdado}, A. and {Reyes Cruz}, H. and {Bueno Hern{\'a}ndez}, D. and {G{\'a}lvez Coyt}, G. and {Arellanes Gonz{\'a}lez}, J.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1063/1.2979284",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
isbn = "9780735405561",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "255--258",
booktitle = "Medical Physics - Tenth Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics",
note = "10th Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics ; Conference date: 17-03-2008 Through 19-03-2008",
}