Correlation of sleep EEG frequency bands and Heart Rate Variability

Haslaile Abdullah; Gerard Holland; Irena Cosic; Dean Cvetkovic

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334607

Correlation of sleep EEG frequency bands and Heart Rate Variability

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:5014-7. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334607.

Authors

Haslaile Abdullah¹, Gerard Holland, Irena Cosic, Dean Cvetkovic

Affiliation

¹ RMIT University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. s3209714@student.rmit.edu.au

PMID: 19965034
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334607

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Electroencephalography / methods*
Female
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Male
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / physiopathology*