effect of slow abdominal breathing technique on heart rate variability in male smokers
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Cigarette smoking is one of the highest contributors to the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to verify the effect of a breathing technique on cardiac autonomic function in long-term male smoker subjects, by short-term heart rate variability analysis. The effect of a breathing technique on heart rate variability, in five long-term male smokers was analyzed. For almost all participants in this study, paced and predominantly abdominal breathing was beneficial, because it afforded greater asymmetry in short-term heart rate variability, as expressed by Poincaré plots, reinforced by significantly higher shortterm variability, long-term variability, root mean square of successive differences, differences of successive intervals greater than 50ms, and Approximate Entropy. An easily learned breathing technique, which is inexpensive and non-intrusive, can help smokers to momentarily remedy the nefarious cardiac effects of their smoking habit.
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2995387882