Blood pressure and cardiovascular parameters during sleep arousals

Sobhan Salari Shahrbabaki, Beena Ahmed, Thomas Penzel, Dean Cvetkovic

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Abstract

Sleep arousal is generally known as a transient episode of wakefulness into the sleepiness. Sleep arousals can be classified based on their association and accompany with pathological episodes. In this paper, our objective was to find out whether various types of sleep arousals influence on blood pressure and Heart Rate Variability (HRV). We analysed continuous Diastolic and Systolic Blood Pressures (DBP and SBP), Pulse Transit Time (PTT) as well as High and Low Frequency components (HF and LF) of HRV in different types of arousals. We developed Slope Index (SI) to determine whether a feature was ascending or descending before, during and after the occurrence of a sleep arousal. Slope Index Positive Percentage (SIPP) was created and computed for all features to find out the percentage of arousals with an ascending trend of a cardiovascular feature. In pre-arousal epochs, we obtained SIPPDBP= 48.9%, SIPPSBP = 48.2% and SIPPLF = 41%. Whilst during the arousal episodes, the SIPPDBP, SIPPSBP and SIPPLF increased to 57.2%, 57.4% and 78.9%, correspondingly. This means that during arousal occurrence these parameters were likelier to rise. Whereas SIPP of PTT and HF component of HRV during arousals were less than prearousal. This indicated PTT and HF were highly probable to drop during the arousal than to rise. The high SIPPDBP and SIPPSBP parameters, approximately 76%, during the arousals indicates that sleep arousals may cause a sudden increase in blood pressure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Subtitle of host publicationSmarter Technology for a Healthier World, EMBC 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages2830-2833
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017 - Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 11 Jul 201715 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju Island
Period11/07/1715/07/17

Keywords

  • Sleep
  • Heart rate variability
  • Blood pressure
  • Silicon
  • Resonant frequency
  • Electrocardiography
  • Indexes

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