Time and frequency analysis of heart rate variability data in heart failure patients

Abstract

The paper presents a mathematically based analysis of heart rate variability of two groups cardiology records: healthy individuals and patients diagnosed with heart failure. The main objective of the study is to perform a parametric evaluation of the cardiovascular system of the human body using time domain and frequency domain analysis of heart rate variability. Making distinguish between diseased individuals and healthy individuals is an interesting challenge that contemporary researchers are working on. Cardiologic records obtained through continuous Holter monitoring (24 hours) were used to address the issues in this study. The obtained results show significantly reduced values of most of the studied parameters in the time domain and the frequency domain in patients with heart failure compared to healthy individuals. The low values of the studied parameters indicate low variability of heart rate and poor overall health status. The graphical results of two study groups are shown when applying the modified Welch periodogram. These graphical results give a visual idea of the variability of time series in healthy and diseased individuals. The obtained numeric and graphical results show that heart failure patients can be distinguished from healthy individuals. The applied mathematical methods in heart rate variability studying can be used as an aid in the cardiology practice of doctors.