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| Year : 2010 |
Volume
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Measures of heart rate variability in women following a meditation technique
Hyorim An, Ravi Kulkarni, R Nagarathna, HR Nagendra
Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, India
Correspondence Address:
Ravi Kulkarni
Eknath Bhavan, 19 Gavipuram Circle, Bangalore - 560 019
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0973-6131.66772
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Certain time domain, frequency domain and a nonlinear measure of heart rate variability are studied in women following a meditative practice called cyclic meditation. The nonlinear measure studied is the sampling entropy. We show that there is an increase in the sampling entropy in the meditative group as compared to the control group. The time domain measure called pNNx is shown to be useful in distinguishing between the meditative state and a normal resting state. |
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