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Table 2 Articles reporting time-domain analysed HRV for older adults

From: Assessing the feasibility of heart rate variability as an objective indicator of anxiety in older adults with dementia living in care homes

Author and Date

N

Population

Dementia

Age range or Mean age (years)

HRV recording device

RMSSD (ms)

lnRMSSD (ms)

Albinet et al. (2010) [20]

24

Sedentary older adults

No

70.7

Polar Wearlink® Wind transmitter belt

23.7–26.9

3.05–3.09

Almeida-Santos et al. (2016) [21]

1743

Functionally independent adults with satisfactory

No

40–100

ECG

30.22

3.3

169

Cognition

≥ 80

33

NR

de Vilhena Toledo and Junqueira (2008) [22]

22

Older adults with probable Alzheimer’s disease

Yes

60–87

ECG

14.0

NR

24

Healthy older adults

No

60–91

17.6

NR

Kasanuki et al. (2015) [23]

30

Patients with probable dementia with Lewy bodies

Probable

 

ECG

14.2

NR

3

Patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Not specified

79.6

27.9

NR

20

Healthy elderly adults

No

77.2

25.4

NR

Kurita et al. (2006) [24]

12

Elderly adults hospitalized for cerebral vascular disease and dementia

Yes

88

ECG

19.4

NR

Zulfiqar et al. (2010) [25]

20

Health older adults

No

80–99

Holter monitor

30

NR