Table 3.

Correlations between anxiety levels and heart-rate/heart-rate variability measures in patients with BPPV and in healthy controls.

Anxiety levels		Patients with BPPV (N = 18)		Healthy controls (N = 18)
		Correlation with HR	Correlation with HRV	Correlation with HR	Correlation with HRV
State anxiety	r s	0.53	−0.67	0.07	0.06
	p-value	p = 0.020	p = 0.002	p = 0.781	p = 0.826
Trait anxiety	r s	0.12	−0.02	−0.24	0.23
	p-value	p = 0.623	p = 0.929	p = 0.340	p = 0.340

BPPV-Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; HR-Heart-rate, HRV-Heart-rate variability; r _s-Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient.