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. 2017 Oct-Dec;29(4):481–489. doi: 10.5935/0103-507X.20170072

Table 2.

Definition of measures for the study of heart rate variability in the time domain(7)


Measure
Unit Definition
SDNN ms Standard deviation of all normal NN intervals
SDNNi ms Standard deviation of NN calculated over 5-minute intervals
SDANN ms Standard deviation of the average NN interval
rMSSD ms Root mean square of the successive NN interval difference
pNN50 % Normal-to-normal NN intervals whose difference exceeds 50 milliseconds