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Cardiac Variability and Heart-Rate Increment as a Marker of Sleep Fragmentation in Patients With a Sleep Disorder: a Preliminary Study

Émilia Sforza, Vincent Pichot, Kateřina Červená, Jean Barthélemy, Frédéric Roche

SLEEP · 2007 · 76 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

The %VLFI and LF/HF ratio provide indirect measures of sleep fragmentation, suggesting that HRV measures during sleep assess more the associated sleep fragmentation than the presence of a specific sleep disorder.

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