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Pathophysiological and Systems Biology Considerations

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Outline: In this chapter some general arguments about the significance of changed time series patterns as a surrogate of a system are presented. I introduce the idea of decreased heart rate variability as a sign for illness and emphasize specially entropy and other nonlinear parameters. In the next section several subsystems of the body that may influence heart rate variability are discussed. I include commonly known (and already mentioned) elements, like the autonomic nervous system, the lung and the circulatory system, as well as other peripheral parts, such as the endocrinological system in general or the immune system. This discussion will be essential for the next chapter, in which I present and discuss different models for heart rate variability.

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