Changes in Multifractality with Aging and Heart Failure in Heartbeat Interval Time Series

Author

Diosdado, A. Munoz ; Brown, F. Angulo ; Correa, J. L Del Rio

Author_Institution

Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnologia

fYear

2006

Firstpage

6981

Lastpage

6984

Abstract

We present a multifractal analysis of diurnal heart interbeat time series from healthy young subjects, healthy elderly subjects and patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Aging and CHF causes loss of multifractality. We analyze the multifractal spectrum asymmetry. We show that the joint analysis of the degree of multifractality and the asymmetry parameter can differentiate between the cardiac interbeat time series of young and elderly persons and it can also separate healthy subjects and CHF patients

Keywords

diseases; electrocardiography; fractals; geriatrics; time series; aging; asymmetry parameter; cardiac interbeat time series; congestive heart failure; diurnal heart interbeat time series; healthy elderly subjects; healthy young subjects; heart failure; heartbeat interval time series; multifractal analysis; multifractal spectrum asymmetry; multifractality; Aging; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Fractals; Heart beat; Length measurement; Q measurement; Senior citizens; Time measurement; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616112

Filename

1616112