Title | Cardiorespiratory coupling during sleep in difficult-to-control asthmatic patients. | ||
Author | Cabiddu, Ramona; Aletti, Federico; Duarte Souza, Valeria; Peres Costa, Ivan; Stirbulov, Roberto; Borghi Silva, Audrey; Bianchi, Anna M; de Oliveira, Luis V Franco; Cerutti, Sergio; Malosa Sampaio, Luciana | ||
Journal | Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc | Publication Year/Month | 2012 |
PMID | 23366719 | PMCID | -N/A- |
Affiliation | 1.Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biomedica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milano, Italy. |
Heart rate variability (HRV) and respiration recorded during sleep from 8 patients suffering from difficult-to-control asthma were studied to investigate autonomic nervous system control of cardiac and respiratory activities, and of cardio-respiratory coupling during different sleep stages.