Heart rate variability in the subsyndromal depressive phase of bipolar disorder

• Published in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 361 - 366
• Main Authors: Lee, Jung-Sun, Kim, Byungsu, Hong, Youjin, Joo, Yeon Ho
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne, Australia Blackwell Publishing Asia 01.06.2012; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Bipolar disorder; Bipolar Disorder - diagnosis; Bipolar Disorder - physiopathology; Bipolar disorders; Case-Control Studies; Depression; Depression - physiopathology; EKG; electrocardiography; Female; Heart rate; Heart Rate - physiology; Humans; Limbs; Male; Medical sciences; Mood disorders; physiology; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Standard deviation; subsyndromal phase; Mood disorder; Heart rate; Electrodiagnosis; Electrocardiography; physiology; Depression; Bipolar disorder; Hemodynamics; Subsyndromal; subsyndromal phase

Aims:  To compare the heart rate variability of bipolar patients in the subsyndromal depressive phase with healthy controls and to evaluate the relationship between severity of subsyndromal depressive symptoms and heart rate variability. Methods:  Thirty‐three bipolar patients in the subsyndromal de...