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Two Operational Modes of Cardio-Respiratory Coupling Revealed by Pulse-Respiration Quotient

Journal

BIOENGINEERING-BASEL
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10020180

Keywords

heart rate variability; pulse respiration quotient; slow breathing; cardio-respiratory coupling; cardio-respiratory synchronization; sympatho-vagal balance

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In this study, we proposed a method to calculate the pulse respiration quotient and explored its correlations with respiratory and cardiac intervals. We found that body posture influenced the scatter plot of the correlations, while breathing regime had little effect on linear regression slopes.
Due to the fact that respiratory breath-to-breath and cardiac intervals between two successive R peaks (BBI and RRI, respectively) are not temporally concurrent, in a previous paper, we proposed a method to calculate both the integer and non-integer parts of the pulse respiration quotient (PRQ = BBI/RRI = PRQ(int) + b1 + b2), b1 and b2 being parts of the border RRIs for each BBI. In this work, we study the correlations between BBI and PRQ, as well as those between BBI and mean RRI within each BBI (mRRI), on a group of twenty subjects in four conditions: in supine and standing positions, in combination with spontaneous and slow breathing. Results show that the BBI vs. PRQ correlations are positive; whereas the breathing regime had little or no effect on the linear regression slopes, body posture did. Two types of scatter plots were obtained with the BBI vs. mRRI correlations: one showed points aggregated around the concurrent PRQ(int) lines, while the other showed randomly distributed points. Five out of six of the proposed aggregation measures confirmed the existence of these two cardio-respiratory coupling regimes. We also used b1 to study the positions of R pulses relative to the respiration onsets and showed that they were more synchronous with sympathetic activation. Overall, this method should be used in different pathological states.

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