Role of Heart Rate Variability in the Association between Myocardial Infarction Severity and Post-Myocardial Infarction Distress.
Reham DyabClaudia Zuccarella-HacklMary PrincipSinthujan SivakumarRebecca E Meister-LangrafHansjoerg ZnojJean-Paul SchmidJürgen BarthUlrich SchnyderRoland von KänelYori GidronPublished in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
MI severity (Killip classification) predicted post-MI depression and PTSD symptoms, but only in patients with low HRV, suggesting that the vagal nerve is a partial protective (moderating) factor in the relation between Killip score and post-MI distress.