Pine D S, Wasserman G A, Miller L, Coplan J D, Bagiella E, Kovelenku P, Myers M M, Sloan R P
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA.
Psychophysiology. 1998 Sep;35(5):521-9. doi: 10.1017/s0048577298970846.
To examine associations between heart period variability (HPV) and psychopathology in young urban boys at risk for delinquency, a series of 697-11-year-old younger brothers of adjudicated delinquents received a standardized psychiatric evaluation and an assessment of heart period variability (HPV). Psychiatric symptoms were rated in two domains: externalizing and internalizing psychopathology. Continuous measures of both externalizing and internalizing psychopathology were associated with reductions in HPV components related to parasympathetic activity. These associations could not be explained by a number of potentially confounding variables, such as age, ethnicity, social class, body size, or family history of hypertension. Although familial hypertension predicted reduced HPV and externalizing psychopathology, associations between externalizing psychopathology and HPV were independent of familial hypertension. Psychiatric symptoms are associated with reduced HPV in young urban boys at risk for delinquency.
为了研究处于犯罪风险中的城市年轻男孩的心率变异性（HPV）与精神病理学之间的关联，对697名年龄在11岁的已被判定有罪少年的弟弟进行了一系列标准化的精神病学评估和心率变异性（HPV）评估。精神病症状在两个领域进行评分：外化性和内化性精神病理学。外化性和内化性精神病理学的连续测量结果均与副交感神经活动相关的HPV成分降低有关。这些关联无法用一些潜在的混杂变量来解释，如年龄、种族、社会阶层、体型或高血压家族史。虽然家族性高血压预示着HPV降低和外化性精神病理学，但外化性精神病理学与HPV之间的关联独立于家族性高血压。精神病症状与处于犯罪风险中的城市年轻男孩的HPV降低有关。
