Kenichi Hashimoto1, Yuji Kasamaki2, Masayoshi Soma3, Bonpei Takase1. 1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan. 2. Department of General Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan. 3. Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: T-wave alternans (TWA) is a risk stratification predictor for sudden cardiac death. However, little is known about the diurnal variation of TWA. Whether TWA are affected by heart rate (HR) or cardiac autonomic nervous activity in the subjects without significant structural heart disease in daily life is not fully understood. Thus, this study was aimed to clarify these issues. METHODS: Frequency domain (FD)-TWA analysis was conducted in 47 subjects without significant structural heart disease using 24-hr ambulatory electrocardiogram (AECG). Measurement of heart rate variability (HRV) was performed in order to evaluate the autonomic activity of the heart. The maximum FD-TWA value in each period was measured four times per day (A, 00:00-6:00 hr; B, 06:00-12:00 hr; C, 12:00-18:00 hr; D, 18:00-24:00 hr). Correlations between FD-TWA and either HR or HRV parameters (LF/HF, LFnu, HFnu, SDNN, CVNN, pNN50) were analyzed in each period (A-D). RESULTS: There was diurnal variation of FD-TWA (median, inter-quartile range [IQR]: A, 8.2 [6.5, 10.6] μV; B, 10.1 [8.4, 15.0] μV; C, 17.6 [12.3, 25.0] μV: D, 11.9 [9.1, 19.9] μV; p < 0.0001). Maximum FD-TWA had positive correlations with HR and LF/HF (HR, r = 0.496, p < 0.0001; LF/HF, r = 0.414, p = 0.004), while FD-TWA had a negative correlation with HFnu (r = -0.291, p = 0.048). On multiple linear regression analysis, HR had an independent effect on log FD-TWA amplitude (β = 0.461, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: FD-TWA has marked diurnal variation in the daily life of the subjects without significant structural heart disease. This variation could be more strongly affected by HR than the HRV indices.
BACKGROUND: T-wave alternans (TWA) is a risk stratification predictor for sudden cardiac death. However, little is known about the diurnal variation of TWA. Whether TWA are affected by heart rate (HR) or cardiac autonomic nervous activity in the subjects without significant structural heart disease in daily life is not fully understood. Thus, this study was aimed to clarify these issues. METHODS: Frequency domain (FD)-TWA analysis was conducted in 47 subjects without significant structural heart disease using 24-hr ambulatory electrocardiogram (AECG). Measurement of heart rate variability (HRV) was performed in order to evaluate the autonomic activity of the heart. The maximum FD-TWA value in each period was measured four times per day (A, 00:00-6:00 hr; B, 06:00-12:00 hr; C, 12:00-18:00 hr; D, 18:00-24:00 hr). Correlations between FD-TWA and either HR or HRV parameters (LF/HF, LFnu, HFnu, SDNN, CVNN, pNN50) were analyzed in each period (A-D). RESULTS: There was diurnal variation of FD-TWA (median, inter-quartile range [IQR]: A, 8.2 [6.5, 10.6] μV; B, 10.1 [8.4, 15.0] μV; C, 17.6 [12.3, 25.0] μV: D, 11.9 [9.1, 19.9] μV; p < 0.0001). Maximum FD-TWA had positive correlations with HR and LF/HF (HR, r = 0.496, p < 0.0001; LF/HF, r = 0.414, p = 0.004), while FD-TWA had a negative correlation with HFnu (r = -0.291, p = 0.048). On multiple linear regression analysis, HR had an independent effect on log FD-TWA amplitude (β = 0.461, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: FD-TWA has marked diurnal variation in the daily life of the subjects without significant structural heart disease. This variation could be more strongly affected by HR than the HRV indices.
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