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Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a leading cause of mortality with an incidence of 3 million cases per year worldwide. Therapies for patients who have survived an SCD episode or have a high risk of developing lethal ventricular arrhythmia are well established and depend mainly on risk stratification. In this study we investigated the suitability of the non-linear measure compression entropy ( H  C ) for improved risk prediction in cardiac patients. We recorded 24-h Holter ECG for 300 patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). During a mean follow-up period of 12 months, 32 patients died due to a cardiac event.  H  C  depends on the compression parameters window length  w  and buffer length  b , which were optimised by analysing a subgroup of patients. Compression entropies based on the beat-to-beat interval (BBI) were subsequently calculated and compared with standard heart-rate variability parameters. Statistical analysis revealed significant differences between high- and low-risk CHF patients in standard HRV measures, as well as compression entropy based on the BBI (cardiac death, p=0.005; SCD, p=0.02). In conclusion, the implementation of non-linear compression entropy analysis in multivariate analysis seems to be useful for enhanced risk stratification of cardiac death, especially SCD, in ischaemic cardiomyopathy patients.

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Compression entropy contributes to risk stratification in patients with cardiomyopathy / Kompressionsentropie zur verbesserten Risikostratifizierung bei Patienten mit DCM