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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Res Nurs. 2005 Jul;7(1):16–29. doi: 10.1177/1099800405275202

Table 3.

Predictors for Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

Beta t P R2Change R2 Adj.R2
Frequency domains
 Total frequency (Hz)
  Gender −.234 −2.849 .005 .116 .116
  Exercise beliefs .238 2.903 .004 .076 .192
  DM type −.206 −2.528 .013 .035 .227
  HbA1c −.199 −2.470 .015 .038 .265 .24
 Low frequency (Hz)
  PAR .212 2.634 .010 .125 .125
  Exercise beliefs .210 2.638 .009 .076 .201
  Gender −.195 −2.413 .017 .054 .255
  DM type −.209 −2.641 .009 .035 .290
  HbA1c −.191 −2.473 .015 .036 .326 .30
 High frequency (Hz)
  Exercise beliefs .256 2.977 .004 .091 .091
  DM type −.243 −2.822 .006 .057 .148 .133
Time domain
 SDNN
  Gender −.306 −3.790 .0001 .169 .169
  PAR .271 3.338 .001 .087 .256
  Exercise beliefs .199 2.490 .014 .037 .293 .275
 SDANN
  Gender −.289 −3.401 .001 .139 .139
  PAR .212 2.485 .014 .054 .193
  Exercise beliefs .166 1.982 .050 .026 .219 .199
 SD
  PAR .252 3.007 .003 .128 .128
  Gender −.249 −2.983 .003 .073 .202
  Exercise beliefs .216 2.612 .010 .044 .245 .226
 pNN50
  PAR .209 2.361 .020 .085 .085
  Exercise beliefs .186 2.138 .035 .043 .128
  Gender −.180 −2.041 .043 .030 .158 .137
 rMSSD
  Exercise beliefs .233 2.664 .009 .078 .078
  PAR .231 2.644 .009 .051 .130 .115

NOTE: Hz = Hertz; PAR = Seven-Day Physical Activity Recall (Sallis, Buono, Roby, Micale, & Nelson, 1993); Exercise Beliefs = Exercise Belief Instrument for Adolescents (Loman & Galgani, 1996); DM = diabetes mellitus; HbAlc = glycosylated hemoglobin; SDNN = standard deviation of all R-R intervals; SDANN = standard deviation of all the means of R-R intervals for each 5-minute block; SD = mean of the standard deviation of the R-R intervals of each 5-min block; pNN50 = % of adjacent R-R intervals with ≥50 ms difference; rMSSD = square root of the mean of the sum of squares of differences between adjacent R-R intervals.