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. 2013 Aug 14;6:32. doi: 10.1186/1755-7682-6-32

Table 2.

Mean and standard deviation for time-domain indices between before, 0–5 minutes, 5–10 minutes and 10–15 minutes after the postural change maneuver in the control protocol

Index Seated rest 0-5 min 5-10 min 10-15 min p
SDNN (ms)
45.1±9
44.6±13
44.6±13
*34.7±8
0.040
RMSSD (ms)
30.4±12
19.2±7
17.7±7
*16.9±7
0.030
pNN50 (%) 11.4±14 3.2±4 2.7±3 *2±3 0.0189

*Different from Control. N=12.

Legend: SDNN standard deviation of normal-to-normal R-R intervals, pNN50 the percentage of adjacent RR intervals with a difference of duration greater than 50 ms, RMSSD root-mean square of differences between adjacent normal RR intervals in a time interval. ms millisecond.