ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2020
Depression affects autonomic system of the body? Yes, it does!
Article in Journal of education and health promotion, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Application of machine learning algorithms to identify risk factors for depression in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A Taiwan diabetes registry study.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2025Article
- Chronic Stress and Headaches: The Role of the HPA Axis and Autonomic Nervous System.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Depression Recognition Using Daily Wearable-Derived Physiological Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The relationship between symptoms of depression and falls in older adults: A case-control study.JAR life · 2025Article
- Understanding immune system dysfunction and its context in mood disorders: psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology and clinical interventions.Military Medical Research · 2024Review
- Sex Differences in the Association of Depression Symptoms and Cardiovascular Disease in Adults in the United States.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2024Article
- Short-Term Blood Pressure Variability among Young Adults at High or Low Risk for Depression.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Altered Low Frequency Heart Rate Variability Associated with Agoraphobia in Panic Disorder: A Retrospective Study.Yonsei medical journal · 2023Article
- Effects of Online Pilates and Face-to-Face Pilates Intervention on Body Composition, Muscle Mechanical Properties, Cardiometabolic Parameters, Mental Health, and Physical Fitness in Middle-Aged Women with Obesity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessment of sympathovagal balance by HRV analysis in alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease patients.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Article
- Stress circuitry: mechanisms behind nervous and immune system communication that influence behavior.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the central monoaminergic systems: a pathophysiological link to insomnia with clinical implications.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Review
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Abstract
backgroundDepression is a disorder of the brain, a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being and can cause alteration in sympathetic activity of the body, thus affecting heart rate variability (HRV).
aimThe study was conducted to determine the effects of depression on HRV parameters in clinically known cases of depression. MATERIALS AND
methodsA cross-sectional (observational) study was conducted on fifty known patients of depression, aged 18-65 years, and fifty healthy, age-matched, normal controls. HRV test was conducted, and the results were analyzed statistically using Student's "t"-test for equal variance, for various parameters.
resultsThe study showed that the differences in mean R-R interval(s), mean HR (beats/min), very low frequency (VLF) power (milliseconds squared [ms
conclusionDepression leads to changes in autonomic control of the body and changes the autonomic balance in favor of an increased sympathetic tone, which can be detected with fair accuracy with HRV analysis.
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