title: Exercise modulation of cardiorespiratory variability in humans.
abstract: Cardiorespiratory variability is the product of the integration of centrally generated rhythms with feedback from central and peripheral sensors. To quantify the effect of increased central drive on scaling patterns of cardiorespiratory activity, breath-to-breath interval (BBI) and heartbeat-to-heartbeat interval (RRI) were recorded from 17 female and 17 male adult subjects at rest and at two levels of mild exercise. Temporal scaling of BBI and RRI was quantified with detrended fluctuation analysis. Relative to a resting state, exercise induced a decrease in the short-term scaling of BBI (p=0.022), an increase in the long-term scaling of RRI (p=0.006), and abolished a significant positive linear relationship in females subjects (p=0.024) and a significant negative relationship in male subjects (p=0.025) in the short-term scaling of BBI and RRI. In conclusion, exercise has opposing effects on the control of breathing and heart rate, and modulates a divergent gender-based coupling of the temporal scaling of cardiorespiratory function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628, United States. busha@tcnj.edu
authors.forename: Brett F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Busha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D012119:Respiration; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult