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Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics
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There is evidence that physiological signals under healthy conditions may have a fractal temporal structure. Here we investigate the possibility that time series generated by certain physiological control systems may be members of a special class of complex processes, termed multifractal, which require a large number of exponents to characterize their scaling properties. We report onevidence for multifractality in a biological dynamical system, the healthy human heartbeat, and show that the multifractal character and nonlinear properties of the healthy heart rate are encoded in the Fourier phases. We uncover a loss of multifractality for a life-threatening condition, congestive heart failure.
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- Authors
- Ivanov, P. C., Amaral, L. A. N., Goldberger, A. L., Havlin, S., Rosenblum, M. G., Struzik, Z. R., & Stanley, H. E.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1999-06
- Volume
- 399
- Issue
- 6735
- Pages
- 461-465
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2127873098
- Cited by
- 1,456
- References
- 21
- FWCI
- 20.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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