Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability in Adolescents
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: Anxiety in adolescents is an emerging public health problem throughout the world and its prevalence has increased dramatically over the last decade in both developed and developing countries. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays an important role in regulating response of our body to various anxiety provoking situations on short and long term basis. ANS activities can be assessed by many ways, among which heart rate variability (HRV) is easy to measure and is quite reliable also. The aim of this study was to assess HRV among adolescent suffering from anxiety. Method: This study was carried out in a school at Jaipur. It included 35 adolescents with diagnosis of anxiety disorder, in the age range of ten to nineteen years studying in class 8th to 11th, and 34 suitably matched healthy controls. Heart-rate variability was studied using the standard protocol. Results: There is significant reduction in HRV in anxious adolescents. Significant increase in LF/HF ratio and LF power and decrease in HF power in cases compare to control. Conclusion: ANS as a whole is depressed in anxious group of adolescent with particular evidence of parasympathetic depression.
Authors and Affiliations
R. K. Bishnoi, Sunita Bishnoi, Ashok Gupta, Ramchandra Lamba, S. K. Bishnoi, Vishnu Kumar Goyal
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.3.028
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