@inproceedings{bf933911ad274f5683481e17f45494f9,
title = "Nonlinear dynamics of heart rate variability in children with asthmatic symptoms",
abstract = "Asthma is a chronic lung disease that is prone to start during chilhood. Although symptoms can be usually controlled with medication, early diagnosis is crucial to reduce the risk of permanent airway obstruction. Despite the fact that origin of asthma is still uncertain, abnormal parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity has been pointed out to play a major role in its pathogenesis. In this work the use of nonlinear heart rate variability (HRV) indexes is proposed in order to look for differences between children classified as high- or low-risk of suffering from asthma in the future. PNS activity is assessed trough a filtered HRV signal. Correlation dimension analysis showed statistically significant differences distinguishing high-and low-risk. Decreased complexity observed in high-risk group suggests that abnormal PNS activity might be related with increased risk of developing asthma.",
keywords = "Asthma, Children, Heart rate variability, Nonlinear, Parasympathetic nervous system",
author = "J. Milagro and E. Gil and J. Bolea and Sepp{\"a}, \{V. P.\} and Malmberg, \{L. P.\} and Pelkonen, \{A. S.\} and A. Kotaniemi-Syrj{\"a}nen and M{\"a}kel{\"a}, \{M. J.\} and J. Viik and R. Bail{\'o}n",
note = "jufoid=58152 INT=tut-bmt,{"}Kotaniemi-Syrj{\"a}nen, A.{"}; Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC) and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (NBC) ; Conference date: 01-01-1900",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7\_204",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811051210",
volume = "65",
series = "IFMBE Proceedings",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "815--818",
booktitle = "EMBEC and NBC 2017 - Joint Conference of the European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference EMBEC 2017 and the Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, NBC 2017",
}