Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Analysis as Preclinical Diagnostic Tool in Cardiac Performance Assessment for Diabetic Subjects

The complications of diabetes are manifold. Episode of cardiac deaths are more in diabetic subjects than the normal cohorts. Clinical symptoms of deterioration of cardiac health are not manifested at an early stage in current diagnostic practice. Early diagnosis of the same can control morbidity and mortality rate. The paper proposes an early, safe, easily deployable, cost effective and non-invasive technique that can be used as confirmative diagnostic tool obtained from 2-lead ECG sample collected for at least 3 minutes duration. The proposed tool provides a guideline to the echo-cardiologist and saves his time and also controls inter operator diagnostic variation. Also the test can be performed by paramedical personnel saving the echo-cardiologist’s time. The proposed paper establishes correlation between HRV indices and echocardiogram finding of control group and diabetic subjects.