PMID- 34067255 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20210626 IS - 1099-4300 (Electronic) IS - 1099-4300 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 6 DP - 2021 May 22 TI - Influence of Ectopic Beats on Heart Rate Variability Analysis. LID - 10.3390/e23060648 [doi] LID - 648 AB - The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) plays a dominant role in the study of physiological signal variability. HRV reflects the information of the adjustment of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves on the cardiovascular system and, thus, is widely used to evaluate the functional status of the cardiovascular system. Ectopic beats may affect the analysis of HRV. However, the quantitative relationship between the burden of ectopic beats and HRV indices, including entropy measures, has not yet been investigated in depth. In this work, we analyzed the effects of different numbers of ectopic beats on several widely accepted HRV parameters in time-domain (SDNN), frequency-domain (LF/HF), as well as non-linear features (SampEn and Pt-SampEn (physical threshold-based SampEn)). The results showed that all four indices were influenced by ectopic beats, and the degree of influence was roughly increased with the increase of the number of ectopic beats. Ectopic beats had the greatest impact on the frequency domain index LF/HF, whereas the Pt-SampEn was minimally accepted by ectopic beats. These results also indicated that, compared with the other three indices, Pt-SampEn had better robustness for ectopic beats. FAU - Zhao, Lina AU - Zhao L AD - The State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. FAU - Li, Peng AU - Li P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4684-4909 AD - Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. FAU - Li, Jianqing AU - Li J AD - The State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. FAU - Liu, Chengyu AU - Liu C AD - The State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. LA - eng GR - 81871444 and 62071241/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210522 PL - Switzerland TA - Entropy (Basel) JT - Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101243874 PMC - PMC8224602 OTO - NOTNLM OT - congestive heart failure OT - electrocardiogram OT - heart rate variability OT - sample entropy COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/06/03 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/03 06:01 PMCR- 2021/05/22 CRDT- 2021/06/02 01:18 PHST- 2021/04/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/05/15 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/05/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/06/02 01:18 [entrez] PHST- 2021/06/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/03 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/05/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - e23060648 [pii] AID - entropy-23-00648 [pii] AID - 10.3390/e23060648 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Entropy (Basel). 2021 May 22;23(6):648. doi: 10.3390/e23060648.