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Nonlinear dynamics in sudden cardiac death syndrome: Heartrate oscillations and bifurcations

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Patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death show evidence of nonlinear heartrate dynamics, including abrupt spectral changes (bifurcations) and sustained low frequency (.01–.04 Hz) oscillations in heartrate.

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts

    A. L. Goldberger, D. R. Rigney & J. Mietus

  2. Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts

    E. M. Antman

  3. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    D. R. Rigney & S. Greenwald

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Goldberger, A.L., Rigney, D.R., Mietus, J. et al. Nonlinear dynamics in sudden cardiac death syndrome: Heartrate oscillations and bifurcations. Experientia 44, 983–987 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01939894

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