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The recognition of all main features of a healthy heart rhythm (the so-called sinus rhythm) is still one of the biggest challenges in contemporary cardiology. Recently the interesting physiological phenomenon of heart rate asymmetry has been observed. This phenomenon is related to unbalanced contributions of heart rate decelerations and accelerations to heart rate variability. In this paper we apply methods based on the concept of ordinal pattern to the analysis of electrocardiograms (inter-peak intervals) of healthy subjects in the supine position. This way we observe new regularities of the heart rhythm related to the distribution of ordinal patterns of lengths 3 and 4.
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Graff, G., Graff, B., Kaczkowska, A. et al. Ordinal pattern statistics for the assessment of heart rate variability. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 222, 525–534 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2013-01857-4
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