TABLE 1.
Time and frequency heart rate variability indicators.
| Pre dive mean | SE | Post dive mean | SE | p-value | |
| Low frequency (ms2) | 451.56 | 44.31 | 594.11 | 71.64 | 0.002 |
| Total low frequencies (ms2) | 608.72 | 55.42 | 809.37 | 85.42 | 0.001 |
| High frequency (ms2) | 69.24 | 8.32 | 106.53 | 18.94 | 0.001 |
| LF/HF ratio | 8.50 | 0.82 | 8.21 | 0.74 | 0.280 |
| LF as ratio of total variability | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.461 |
| Total low frequencies (n.u.) | 0.90 | 0.01 | 0.89 | 0.01 | 0.203 |
| HF as ratio of total variability | 0.03 | 0.002 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.144 |
| RMSSD | 19.95 | 1.02 | 25.36 | 1.90 | 0.000 |
| SDNN (ms) | 43.35 | 1.57 | 48.40 | 2.60 | 0.002 |