Research Article

Nicotine Ingestion Reduces Heart Rate Variability in Young Healthy Adults

Table 1

Definition of the measurements involved in this study.

NameUnitDefinition

LF powerms2Power in low frequency range (mainly represents SNS activity)
HF powerms2Power in high frequency range (mainly represents PNS activity)
LF (nu)n.u.LF in normalized units:
HF (nu)n.u.HF in normalized units:
BMIKg/ms2Body mass index: body mass (kg)/height (m)2
HRBPMHeart rate
RMSSDmsThe square root of the mean of the sum of the squares of differences between adjacent NN intervals
SDNNmsStandard deviation of all NN intervals

The LF (nu) and HF (nu) were assessed for HRV analysis in this experiment.