Author: Duyan Geng1, Xuanyu Liu1,2, Yan Wang1,2, Jiaxing Wang1,2
Affiliation: <sup>1</sup> State Key Laboratory of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
<sup>2</sup> Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Apparatus Reliability of Hebei Province, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
Conference/Journal: PLoS One
Date published: 2022 Feb 10
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Volume ID: 17 , Issue ID: 2 , Pages: e0263833 , Special Notes: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263833. , Word Count: 200
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) has shown positive effects on a variety of diseases. Considering that decreased heart rate variability (HRV) is closely associated with morbidity and mortality for a variety of diseases, it is important to investigate the effect of taVNS on HRV. In Study 1, we conducted a two-stage cross-over trial to compare the effects of taVNS and sham taVNS (staVNS) on HRV. In Study 2, we systematically tested the effects of different taVNS parameters on high frequency (HF) component of HRV. The results showed that taVNS significantly increased measurements of root mean square of the difference between successive RR intervals (RMSSD), percentage of number of pairs of adjacent RR intervals differing greater than 50ms (pRR50), standard deviation of all RR intervals (SDRR), HF. Significantly, enhancement of HF and pRR50 persisted into recovery period. In addition, higher baseline LF/HF ratio was associated with greater LF/HF ratio decrease. Findings also showed that there was no significant difference in measurements of HF between different taVNS parameters. These studies suggest that taVNS could increase HRV, it may help taVNS in the treatment of low HRV related diseases. However, taVNS may not have parameter-specific effects on HRV.
PMID: 35143576 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263833