Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Heart Rate Variability and Cardiovascular Disease in People with Spinal Cord Injury (pp. 1-16)
Fuyuan Liao, Ph.D. and Yih-Kuen Jan, PT, Ph.D. (Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, and others)

Chapter 2 – Heart Rate Variability between Caucasians and African Americans: A Brief Review (pp. 17-26)
Michael R. Esco (The University of Alabama, Department of Kinesiology, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)

Chapter 3 – Relationship between Heart Rate Variability Indices and Habitual Physical Activity (pp. 27-44)
Nórton Luís Oliveira, Fernando Ribeiro, Alberto Jorge Alves and José Oliveira (Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, and others)

Chapter 4 – Performing with All My Heart: Heart Rate Variability and its Relationship with Personality-Trait-Like-Individual-Differences (PTLIDs) in Pressurized Performance Situations (pp. 45-60)
Emma Mosley and Sylvain Laborde (Bournemouth University, Centre for Event and Sport Research, UK, and others)

Chapter 5 – Identification of Diabetic Patients via Heart Rate Variability (pp. 61-78)
Thiago A. Caloti, Rodrigo V. Andreão, José G. Mill and Eduardo M. Dantas (Electrical Engineering Coordination Office, Federal Institute of Espírito Santo , Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 6 – Heart Rate Variability (HRV): HRV Measures Analysis, Classification and Biofeedback (pp. 79-110)
Lei Wang and Guan-Zheng Liu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Key Lab of Health Informatics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and others)

Chapter 7 – Study on the Effect of Endurance Training on HRV in Athletes (pp. 110-138)
Lisheng Xu, Yahui Zhang,Yang Yao, Ruifeng Zhang and Liping Chou (Sino-Dutch Biomedical and Information Engineering School, Northeastern University, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China, and others)

Chapter 8 – Heart Rate Variability in Young Men: Effect of Overweight and Physical Inactivity (pp. 139-148)
Adriana Urbina, Darío Mendoza-Romero, Michel García and Johan Ortíz (Universidad del Rosario, Physiology Unit, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bogotá DC., Colombia, and others)

Chapter 9 – Relaxation Enhances Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, a Cardiorespiratory Resting Function (pp. 149-164)
Masahito Sakakibara, Ph.D. and Junichiro Hayano, M.D. (Department of Psychology, Aichi Gakuin University, Japan, and others)

Chapter 10 – The Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in Diagnostics of Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (pp. 165-174)
Andrey Eu. Kratnov (Yaroslavl State Medical Academy, Yaroslavl, Russia)

Chapter 11 – The Signs of Sympathetic Dominance Based on Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (pp. 175-184)
Igor A. Kelmanson (Institute of Special Education and Special Psychology of the Raoul Wallenberg International University for Family and Child, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Index