Partial spectral element in the chronome of a human neonatal heart rate at term

Biomed Pharmacother. 2002:56 Suppl 2:374s-378s. doi: 10.1016/s0753-3322(02)00321-9.

Abstract

An initial infradian prominence characterizes the spectral element of the chronome or the time structure of half-hourly heart rates during the first 40 days after birth of a boy born at term. Immediately pertinent infradian prominence, which was previously documented for many premature infants and anticipated from the integration of 2-day segments of half-hourly data from infants born at term, is now displayed longitudinally. Dominating first are an about-weekly (circaseptan) or half-weekly (circasemiseptan) and an about 26-day (circatrigintan) component, with a subsequent change from infradian to circadian prominence.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Chronobiology Phenomena / physiology*
  • Heart Rate / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn / physiology*
  • Male