The variable heart: High frequency and very low frequency correlates of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Work examining the link between lower heart rate variability (HRV) and depression in children and adolescents is lacking, especially in light of the physiological changes that occur during pubertal development.

Method

We investigated the association between spectral measures of resting HRV and depressive symptoms among 127 children and adolescents, ages 10-17. Using spectral analysis, we evaluated (1) the association between relative high frequency (HF) HRV and depressive symptoms; (2) the predictive power of relative HF HRV for depressive symptoms in the context of relative low frequency (LF) and relative very low frequency (VLF) HRV; and (3) the relationship between relative HF, LF, and VLF band activity, age and pubertal maturation.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Blood JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4565756 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature