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The Utility of Heart Rate Variability in Aviation and Space Medicine

Journal of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine
Volume 14 (2025): Issue 1 (December 2025)
By: Karen Lindsay and  Erik Van den Top  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/asam-2025-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2639-6416 | Journal ISSN: 1449-3764
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Language: English
Page range: 19 - 26
Published on: Dec 6, 2025
Published by: Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
ANS: Autonomic nervous system,
PNS: Parasympathetic nervous system,
SNS: Sympathetic nervous system,
RR: Time between R-R intervals (ms) on an ECG lead,
RSA: Respiratory sinus arrhythmia is heart rate variability in synchrony with respiration,
by which the R-R interval on an ECG is shortened during inspiration and prolonged during expiration,
SDNN: Standard deviation of all normal-to-normal RR intervals (ms),
RMSSD: Root Mean Square of successive RR interval differences (ms),
pNN50: The percentage of intervals > 50 ms different from preceding interval,
ULF-HRV: Magnitude of variance in the frequency band 0.15-0.40 ,
LF-HRV: Magnitude of variance in the frequency band 0.04–0.15 Hz,
HF-HRV: Magnitude of variance in the frequency band 0.15-0.40,
LF/HF: ratio Low Frequency (LFn) (ms2)/High Frequency (HFn) (ms2)
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