Beat-to-beat blood-pressure fluctuations and heart-rate variability in man: physiological relationships, analysis techniques and a simple model

Thesis

Front cover

Academic title pages

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Title pages

Contents

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1: General introduction

Chapter 2: Description of heart-rate variability data in accordance with a physiological model for the genesis of heart beats

Chapter 3: Comparing spectra of a series of point events, particularly for heart-rate variability data

Chapter 4: The spectrum of a series of point events, generated by the Integral Pulse Frequency Modulation (IPFM) model

Chapter 5: Beat-to-beat variability of heart interval and blood pressure

Chapter 6: Relationships between short-term blood-pressure fluctuations and heart-rate variability: I. A spectral analysis approach

Chapter 7: Relationships between short-term blood-pressure fluctuations and heart-rate variability: II. A simple model

Chapter 8: General discussion and conclusions

Chapter 9: Postscript: A beat-to-beat model of the cardiovascular system, explaining respiratory sinus arrhythmia and the 10-second rhythm in human blood-pressure and heart-rate data

Appendix A: Continuous non-invasive blood-pressure measurement

Appendix B: Attribution of short-term blood-pressure and heart-rate variability to respiration and the 10-second-rhythm: a spectral analysis approach

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Summary

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