Why the study?
Do patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders have altered heart rate variability compared to healthy individuals?
Do patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders have altered heart rate variability compared to healthy individuals?
Patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders exhibit reduced parasympathetic activity as measured by heart rate variability compared to healthy individuals.
May support HRV monitoring in dementia care; reinforces meta-analytic evidence of parasympathetic impairment.
Our results show that dementia patients (especially those with dementia with Lewy bodies and mild cognitive impairment) have lower parasympathetic activity than healthy people. The influence of gender on the results should be carefully interpreted.
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