Heart rate variability (HRV) measurements via ambulatory monitors have become common. In this study, published in October 2020, a group of American authors examined the validity of recording R-R intervals using the Polar V800™ compared to 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECG) among middle-aged (44.7±10.1years), overweight to obese (29.8±4.3 kg.m-2) adults (n = 25) with hypertension (132.3±12.2/ 84.3±10.2 mmHg).
After resting for 5-min in the supine position, R-R intervals were simultaneously recorded using the Polar V800™ and the 12-lead ECG. Artifacts present in uncorrected (UN) R-R intervals were corrected with the Kubios HRV Premium (ver. 3.2.) automatic (AC) and threshold-based (TBC) correction, and manual correction (MC) methods.
Intra-class correlation coefficients (ICC), Bland-Altman limits of agreement (LoA), and effect sizes (ES) were calculated. They detected 71 errors with the Polar V800™ for an error rate of 0.85%.
The bias (LoAs), ES, and ICC between UN and ECG R-R intervals were 0.69ms (-215.80 to +214.42ms), 0.004, and 0.79, respectively. Correction of artifacts improved the agreeability between the Polar V800™ and ECG HRV measures.
The biases (LoAs) between the AC, TBC, and MC and ECG R-R intervals were 3.79ms (-130.32 to +137.90ms), 1.16ms (-92.67 to +94.98ms), and 0.37ms (-41.20 to +41.94ms), respectively. The ES of AC, TBC, and MC were 0.024, 0.008, and 0.002, and ICC were 0.91, 0.95, and 1.00, respectively.
R-R intervals measured using the Polar V800™ compared to 12-lead ECG were comparable in adults with hypertension, especially after the artifacts were corrected by MC. However, TBC correction also yielded acceptable results.
Read the article: PLOS ONE JOURNALS: VALIDATION OF THE POLAR V800 HEART RATE MONITOR AND COMPARISON OF ARTIFACT CORRECTION METHODS AMONG ADULTS WITH HYPERTENSION
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