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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: HIV Clin Trials. 2011 May-Jun;12(3):141–150. doi: 10.1310/hct1203-141

Table 2.

Comparison of time domain analysis parameters by HIV viremia categories

HIV negative
HIV positive
Control Virologic suppression Virologic nonsuppression All HIV-positive participants
Spontaneous breathing SDNN, ms 68.9 (47.6, 90.5) 53.2 (41.5, 84.2) 63.0 (40.7, 100.2) 60.1 (42.1, 87.1)
PNN50, % 26.8 (11.9, 46.1) 11.5 (2.1, 29.6) 15.2 (4.4, 33.8 ) 12.9 (2.7, 29.5)*
RMSSD, ms 48.9 (34.9, 63.8) 37.9 (20.7, 54.0) 42.4 (26.9, 78.6) 41.4 (25.9, 59.5)
Paced breathing SDNN, ms 73.3 (52.6, 82.5) 63.8 (41.3, 83.5) 61.9 (39.2, 88.5) 61.9 (43.2, 85.4)
PNN50, % 38.5 (24.7, 52.4) 19.7 (2.7, 46.6) 18.6 (9.5, 40.3) 18.6 (3.7, 43.4)
RMSSD, ms 63.7 (40.8, 78.4) 40.1 (29.1, 66.0) 41.5 (31.3, 62.7) 41.5 (30.1, 64.1)*
Hand grip SDNN, ms 74.9 (55.3, 104.3) 76.4 (55.8, 93.7) 79.7 (45.1, 87.5) 77.1 (50.9, 92.5)
PNN50, % 20.1 (5.8, 28.9) 7.6 (1.7, 21.2) 5.8 (1.8, 34.6) 6.7 (1.7, 22.8)*
RMSSD, ms 43.1 (30.5, 58.1) 36.2 (20.8, 56.6) 33.3 (23.0, 76.0) 34.5 (23.2, 60.6)
Tilt SDNN, ms 75.9 (58.5, 88.0) 74.5 (55.4, 88.9) 67.6 (40.8, 86.8) 69.8 (51.9, 86.7)
PNN50, % 16.4 (4.2, 29.2) 5.8 (2.3, 11.0) 3.2 (1.6, 13.2) 5.5 (1.7, 11.0)*
RMSSD, ms 40.5 (25.4, 56.9) 33.2 (26.6, 43.1) 39.3 (19.9, 58.6) 34.2 (26.6, 42.5)

Note: Data are presented as median (Q1, Q3), deviation for the standard deviation of normal R-R intervals (SDNN), the percentage of intervals greater than 50 ms different from its predecessor (PNN50) and the root of the mean square of successive differences (RMSSD). A Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to assess the differences between groups.

*

P < .05 compared with HIV seronegative controls.