Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine (한국한의학연구원논문집)
- Volume 14 Issue 1
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- Pages.85-89
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- 2008
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- 1229-3377(pISSN)
Nonlinear analysis of cardiotonic effect of acupuncture treatment on heart rate variability assessed by 24-hour Holter monitoring
침처치의 24시간 심박변이도 영향에 대한 비선형 분석
- Oh, Dal-Seok (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
- Lee, Jeon (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
- Kim, Jong-Yeol (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) ;
- Choi, Sun-Mi (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine)
- Published : 2008.04.30
Abstract
This study is to investigate cardiotonic effect of acupuncture on heart rate variability(HRV) analyzed by a nonlinear way(DFA, Detrended Fluctuation Analysis). It was designed as a randomized, single-blind, waiting list-controlled, cross-over study. We assessed heart rate and R-R intervals in Circadian electrocardiography with a Holter monitoring device for twelve hospitalized participants. The compatible analytical program, Zymed, was used for generating the signals of R-R intervals from 24 hour-ECG. In DFA analysis, we produced DFA alpha 1, alpha 2 parameters according to the process of Cygwin module of Linux server. We tested if there was any difference between HRV parameters using SPSS, a statistical package. There was no difference between acupuncture and no treatment group in DFA alpha 2 parameter {95% Confidence Interval (-)0.058 - 0.037, P = .565}. Two group all showed large intra-individual variations. Consequently, acupuncture treatment did not modulate the complexity of HRV in a DFA analysis. This study can be a rationale for acupuncture's properties on cardiovascular and autonomic systems.