Heart Rate Variability Changes in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: Related to Confounding Factors, Not to Symptom Severity?

Front Neurosci · 2021 · PMC8315043 · PMID 34326716

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marginally significantp = 0.047actually significant

The correlation between systolic BP and VLF was marginally significant ( p = 0.047) ( Table 4 ).

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did not achieve conventional threshold levels of statistical significancep = 0.074so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The negative correlations between diastolic BP and HRV (VLF, LF, and LF/HF) did not achieve conventional threshold levels of statistical significance ( p = 0.074, p = 0.089, and p = 0.054).

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