Day and night heart rate variability using 24-h ECG recordings: a systematic review with meta-analysis using a gender lens.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Increasing evidence demonstrates that gender-related factors, and not only biological sex, are relevant in the physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms of the cardiovascular system, including the cardiac autonomic regulation. Sex and gender may also affect daytime and night-time cardiac autonomic control. This meta-analysis aimed to provide a comparison between healthy women and men on heart rate variability using 24-h ECG recordings pointing out sex- and gender-related factors.

Methods

A systematic search was conducted to include studies focusing on both sex and gender differences related to heart rate variability indices in the time and frequency domains. Descriptive data were extracted by two independent reviewers. For each index, standardized mean differen

SUBMITTER: De Maria B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751261 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature