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title: "Stress & HRV Analysis"
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# Stress & HRV Analysis

### Quantify Mental Health and Autonomic Nervous System Function

**What Is HRV?** Heart Rate Variability measures the variation in time between heartbeats. Higher HRV indicates better stress resilience, cardiovascular fitness, and autonomic nervous system balance.

**Metrics Captured:**

**HRV SDNN (Standard Deviation of NN Intervals)**

- Normal: >50 ms
- Indicates: Overall cardiac health and autonomic regulation
- Clinical Use: Stress assessment, cardiac risk stratification

**RMSSD (Root Mean Square of Successive Differences)**

- Reflects: Parasympathetic (relaxation) nervous system activity
- Clinical Use: Recovery from stress, sleep quality, mental health

**Stress Index (Baevsky Method)**

- Scale: 1-10 (1 = relaxed, 10 = severe stress)
- Based on: HRV analysis + heart rate patterns
- Clinical Use: Mental health screening, burnout prevention

**Pulse-Respiration Quotient (PRQ)**

- Ideal Ratio: ~5 (heart rate / respiration rate)
- Indicates: Mind-body balance, autonomic coordination
- Clinical Use: Traditional medicine integration, wellness optimization

**Clinical Applications:**

- Mental Health
- Cardiovascular
- Integrative Medicine

**Benefits for Practitioners:**

- **Objective mental health data** — Beyond subjective self-reports
- **Traditional medicine validation** — Quantify holistic treatments
- **Preventive care tool** — Identify stress before physical symptoms
- **Patient engagement** — Visual feedback motivates behavior change