Concurrent sympathetic activation and vagal withdrawal in hyperthyroidism: Evidence from detrended fluctuation analysis of heart rate variability

Jin Long Chen, Yuo Hsien Shiau, Yin Jiun Tseng, Hung Wen Chiu, Tzu Chien Hsiao, Niels Wessel, Jürgen Kurths, Woei Chyn Chu

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Despite many previous studies on the association between hyperthyroidism and the hyperadrenergic state, controversies still exist. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a well recognized method in the nonlinear analysis of heart rate variability (HRV), and it has physiological significance related to the autonomic nervous system. In particular, an increased short-term scaling exponent α 1 calculated from DFA is associated with both increased sympathetic activity and decreased vagal activity. No study has investigated the DFA of HRV in hyperthyroidism. This study was designed to assess the sympathovagal balance in hyperthyroidism. We performed the DFA along with the linear analysis of HRV in 36 hyperthyroid Graves' disease patients (32 females and 4 males; age 30 ± 1 years, means ± SE) and 36 normal controls matched by sex, age and body mass index. Compared with the normal controls, the hyperthyroid patients revealed a significant increase (P <0.001) in α 1 (hyperthyroid 1.28 ± 0.04 versus control 0.91 ± 0.02), long-term scaling exponent α 2 (1.05 ± 0.02 versus 0.90 ± 0.01), overall scaling exponent α (1.11 ± 0.02 versus 0.89 ± 0.01), low frequency power in normalized units (LF%) and the ratio of low frequency power to high frequency power (LF/HF); and a significant decrease (P <0.001) in the standard deviation of the R - R intervals (SDNN) and high frequency power (HF). In conclusion, hyperthyroidism is characterized by concurrent sympathetic activation and vagal withdrawal. This sympathovagal imbalance state in hyperthyroidism helps to explain the higher prevalence of atrial fibrillation and exercise intolerance among hyperthyroid patients.
原文英語
頁(從 - 到)1861-1868
頁數8
期刊Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
389
發行號9
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 5月 1 2010

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 凝聚態物理學
  • 統計與概率

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