Table 5.

Holter parameters of patients with acute ischemic stroke

	Left hemisphere stroke (n=74)	Right hemisphere stroke (n=74)	P
Minimum heart rate	46.51±9.44	45.16±10.05	0.40
Average heart rate	75.68±19.74	73.78±10.93	0.30
Maximum heart rate	129.63±19.74	129.29±24.98	0.93
Total QRS	100901.12±19736.52	99957.36±18725.74	0.77
VLF	23.29 (18.64 32.46)	22.96 (18.99 29.95)	0.84
LF	16.62 (10.58 21.64)	16.31 (11.17 24.18)	0.64
HF	12.40 (8.45 15.70)	11.25 (8.13 14.65)	0.53
LF/HF ratio	1.42±0.55	1.57±0.60	0.12
SDNN	97.10±33.75	95.47±32.75	0.77
SDANN	81.18±31.85	80.17±42.05	0.87
ASDNN	49.37±23.42	48.93±20.04	0.90
rMSSD	34.08±13.34	32.48±12.96	0.46
pNN50	13.05 (5.22 22.10)	8.80 (4.60 19.50)	0.14
Tonset	0.01 (1.41 1.01)	0.08 (0.50 1.00)	0.43
Tslope	3.84 (1.89 5.79)	2.97 (1.25 6.66)	0.15
PVBs	17.00 (9.00 82.25)	12.00 (7.00 113.00)	0.50

PAIS: Patients with acute ischemic stroke, HR: heart rate, VLF: very low frequency, LF: low frequency power, HF: high frequency power, LF/HF ratio: ratio of power in low/high frequency, Mean NN: the mean of all normal RR intervals, SDNN: standard deviation of normal-to-normal R wave in the entire recording, SDANN: standard deviation of the averages of all normal-to-normal RR intervals in all 5 min segments of the entire recording, ASDNN: average standard deviation of the averages of all normal-to-normal RR intervals in all 5 min segments of the entire recording, rMSSD: root mean square of the mean of the squared difference of two consecutive R-R intervals, pNN50: Percent of the differences between the adjacent normal-to-normal intervals >50 ms, BB50: Total number of instances per hour in which two consecutive RR intervals differ by more than 50 msec, PVBs: Premature ventricular beats