Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2013 Apr;55(2):173-7. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.111458.
Alcohol dependence can lead to autonomic neuropathy resulting in increased cardiac morbidity and mortality. This has previously been evaluated using heart-rate variability.
We compared sleep heart-rate variability of alcohol-dependent patients with that of healthy controls in this study.
This study was conducted at NIMHANS, Bangalore. A case control study design was adopted.
Sleep heart-rate variability of 20 male alcohol-dependent inpatients was recorded on the 5(th) day after detoxification. Sleep heart-rate variability was also recorded in 18 age- and gender-matched healthy controls.
The groups were compared using t-test for continuous variables and Chi-squared test for discrete variables.
Both time and frequency domain measures were significantly lower in the patients as compared to the controls, indicating decreased HRV in alcohol-dependent individuals.
Decreased HRV in alcohol dependence indicates potential autonomic neuropathy.
酒精依赖可导致自主神经病变,从而增加心脏发病率和死亡率。这在以前是通过心率变异性评估的。
本研究比较了酒精依赖患者和健康对照者的睡眠心率变异性。
这项研究是在班加罗尔的国家精神卫生和神经科学研究所进行的。采用病例对照研究设计。
20 名男性酒精依赖住院患者在戒酒后的第 5 天记录睡眠心率变异性。还记录了 18 名年龄和性别匹配的健康对照者的睡眠心率变异性。
使用 t 检验比较连续变量,使用卡方检验比较离散变量。
与对照组相比,患者的时间和频率域指标均显著降低,表明酒精依赖个体的心率变异性降低。
酒精依赖时心率变异性降低表明可能存在自主神经病变。