ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Validity and Reliability of Short-Term Heart Rate Variability Parameters in Older People in Response to Physical Exercise.
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- Effect of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Interventions on Heart Rate Variability in Adults: A Systematic Review.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Pooled it
- The Immune-Autonomic Interface in Aging: Baseline Immune Profile Shapes Cardiac Autonomic Response to Exercise.Aging cell · 2026Article
- From brain to heart: cognitive performance shapes exercise- induced cardiac autonomic trajectories in older adults.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Brain activity and autonomic regulation in untreated migraine patients.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2025Article
- Enhancing cardiovascular monitoring: a non-linear model for characterizing RR interval fluctuations in exercise and recovery.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Immune-derived cardiac autonomic signatures: predicting autonomic responses to exercise from B-cell phenotypes.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrently, and to the best of our knowledge, there is no standardized protocol to measure the effect of low- to moderate-intensity physical exercise on autonomic modulation focused in older people.
aimValidate a test-retest short-term exercise protocol for measuring the autonomic response through HRV in older people.
methodsA test-retest study design was used. The participants were selected through intentional non-probabilistic sampling. A total of 105 older people (male: 21.9%; female: 78.1%) were recruited from a local community. The assessment protocol evaluated HRV before and immediately after the 2-min step test. It was performed twice on the same day, considering a time of three chronological hours between the two measurements.
resultsThe posterior distribution of estimated responses in the Bayesian framework suggests moderate to strong evidence favoring a null effect between measurements. In addition, there was moderate to robust agreement between heart rate variability (HRV) indices and assessments, except for low frequency and very low frequency, which showed weak agreement.
conclusionsOur results provide moderate to strong evidence for using HRV to measure cardiac autonomic response to moderate exercise, suggesting that it is sufficiently reliable to show similar results to those shown in this test-retest protocol.
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