Cardiovascular Time Series in the Preclinical and Clinical Settings
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiovascular Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 12972
Special Issue Editors
2. IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Department of Cardiology San Luca Hospital, Milan, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular risk, arterial hypertension, blood pressure measurement and monitoring, blood pressure variability, autonomic neural cardiovascualr regulation, heart failure, children and adolescents, cardiovascular effects of high altitude exposure, sleep apnea; arterial stiffness, pulmonary circulation
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2. University Centre for Sports and Medical Studies, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Interests: heart rate variability, heart rate asymmetry, blood pressure variability, baroreflex function, continuous blood pressure and hemodynamics, echocardiography, arrhythmias, cardiopulmonary exercise test, sports cardiology, cardiovascular time series
Interests: complexity in biosignals; physiological time series; fractals in medicine; cardiovascular modeling; physiology in extreme environments; rehabilitation medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The cardiovascular system is dynamic, and its functions change over time. Heart rate, pressure waveforms and transit times, hemodynamic (e.g., stroke volume, vascular resistance), atrioventricular conduction, QT interval, myocardial oxygen consumption, and muscle or brain oxygenation are examples of vital signals originating from or transferred by the heart and the vascular system.
The cardiovascular time series describing the dynamics of these signals can be defined at every heartbeat or breath or on equally spaced points in time sampled over periods of seconds, hours, days, weeks, or visits. Various mathematical methods are applied to analyze such time series, from simple indexes of dispersion such as standard deviation or counting statistics to more sophisticated approaches such as spectral, nonlinear, and complexity-based analyses. Methods of heart rate and blood pressure variability, baroreflex sensitivity, arterial stiffness, central and peripheral blood pressure, and hemodynamics provide useful information in many clinical areas, including intensive care, cardiology, internal medicine, and sports.
Cardiovascular time series have been explored in patients with hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, shock, sepsis, myocardial infarction, or ischaemic stroke, as well as in athletes in relation to their exercise capacity and sports discipline. Some derived parameters have diagnostic value, and others are used for risk prediction, monitoring the progress of the disease, and the effects of therapies or exercise training.
This Special Issue aims to collect submissions on advances in the monitoring and analysis of cardiovascular time series focusing only on human studies with clear physiological or clinical interpretation. Manuscripts challenging the current knowledge with novel findings are also cordially invited.
Only the following submissions are encouraged: original prospective studies and retrospective analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, and critical appraisals. Neither case nor a series of case studies will be further processed.
Clinicians are the primary readers of the Journal of Clinical Medicine. Therefore, the authors should avoid complex mathematical argumentation and modeling. However, some advanced statistical and analytical methodology (e.g., machine learning or artificial intelligence) may be necessary to provide meaningful clinical or physiological information. Such submissions are also invited to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Parati
Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Guzik
Prof. Dr. Paolo Castiglioni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiovascular time series
- cardiopulmonary exercise test
- sports cardiology
- echocardiography
- arrhythmias
- heart rate variability
- heart rate asymmetry
- blood pressure variability
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