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Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Human Health and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA Stimulants like caffeine can keep you awake and throw off the natural balance between sleep and wakefulness. If you are having trouble sleeping at night, it may help to avoid coffee after midday. Limit light before bed Mice were implanted with telemetry devices (as above) and allowed to recover for 10 days post surgery. At ZT0 or ZT12 on the day of study, age-matched male mice were injected with 120 mg/kg caffeine (Fisher Scientific, USA) and 2 mg/kg adrenaline (Sigma, US) in PBS. Animals were monitored for 15 min before culling. Trains of at least four alternating ventricular premature complexes (characterized by a widening of QRS complexes and QRS inversion) were identified as bidirectional VT. In most cases, they lasted >30 s. Langendorff heart electrophysiology Sanguinetti, M. & Tristani-Firouzi, M. hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia. Nature 440, 463–469 (2006). A healthy, resting human heart beats at about 60 to 100 times a minute. A heartbeat is one contraction of the heart muscles, which pushes blood around the body.

Moderate Activity (Maintenance/Warm-up): 50-60% of HR max. This is the most comfortable training zone. It is primarily used to warm-up and to recover after a more intense zone. It strengthens your heart and improves muscle mass while it reduces body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure, and your risk for degenerative disease. Thus, two independent human studies clearly reveal circadian rhythmicity in chronotropic and dromotropic properties of the heart. However, these inputs are not equal at the SA and AV nodes. Moreover, while the SA node is also heavily influenced by acute alterations in behavior, the AV node is robust against such changes. Differential circadian characteristics of SA and AV node activity are consistent between mice and humans This is still early stage research, but could one day provide a revolutionary way to treat people with heart failure and even stop the debilitating condition from developing in the first place.”

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Associated with exceptional longevity, carriers of healthy mutant genes, like those living in ‘blue zones’ of the planet, often live to 100 years or more and remain in good health. These individuals are also less prone to cardiovascular complications. Scientists believe the gene helps to keep their hearts young by protecting them against diseases linked to ageing, such as heart failure.

Normally, electrical signals control every heart muscle contraction and travel from the atria, or the upper chambers of the heart, to the ventricles, or the lower chambers. Your average beats per minute (BPM) will be displayed and the indicator will show your current training zone. What is heart rate?Experimental design and n number determination were based on appropriate power analysis and previous experience. All ECG data were processed in MATLAB (R2018a; Mathworks, USA) using custom-written algorithms as described below. In both human studies, data were z-scored across the full laboratory session for each individual for analysis to normalize inter-individual variability. For mouse studies, data were z-scored across the whole analysis window (5 days for most analyses, ~9 days for phase shift experiments). Phase delays between RR and other ECG parameters were calculated by comparing the mean of a Gaussian fit to the cross correlogram in each individual to 0 using a one-sample T test. To calculate the dependency of ECG parameters on HR, change in z-scored RR between sequential 5 min ECG analysis windows were determined and segregated into bins reflecting response magnitude (width 0.25 SD in humans, 0.5 SD in mice). Corresponding changes in QT and PR seg were averaged and plotted against ΔRR interval. To determine the effects of locomotor activity on ECG parameters a circadian profile of each parameter at rest was calculated for each animal by fitting a 24-h constrained sine wave to all data points in which the animal had not been active in the preceding 30 min over 5 days of normal recording. Periods in which bouts of locomotor activity were followed by 45 min of inactivity were then isolated and normalized to the appropriate circadian phase based on the at-rest curve fit. The transient activity was identified as an activity bout preceded by >5 min of inactivity and followed by >20 min of inactivity. Data were normalized to the preceding 5 min of inactivity. RR interval distribution heatmaps were calculated by binning RR intervals of mice across 5 days of ECG recording into square bins of size 15 min × ~1.5 ms. Data were converted to a probability of an RR interval falling into any given bin within each 15 min window. Heatmaps were then filtered using a 5 SD Gaussian window with circular padding. Statistics and reproducibility Reitz, C. J. et al. SR9009 administered for one day after myocardial ischemia-reperfusion prevents heart failure in mice by targeting the cardiac inflammasome. Commun. Biol. 2, 1–15 (2019).

Full details of this study are described in refs. 12, 21. Briefly, 14 participants (10 men, 4 women, aged 22–34 years) were randomly assigned to either the “day” or “night” shift conditions. Prior to the laboratory session, participants maintained a self-selected regular sleep schedule. During the laboratory session, participants had fixed, 8-h windows of sleep opportunity. Both groups had 1 day of baseline recording with sleep between 22:00 and 06:00 h before the “night shift” group were, after a transition nap between 14:00 and 18:00 h, shifted to a 3-day period with a sleep window between 10:00 and 18:00 h. This was followed by a day in constant routine and a final recovery day. Lights were kept below 50 lux during wakefulness. ECG was recorded at 4 kHz throughout except for an ~8-h window on the 3rd day using a Holter monitor (DMS 300-3 A; Bravo, Huntington Beach, CA, USA) with standard 5-lead electrode placement. Data were downsampled to 128 Hz for analysis. Pre-study conditions for both human studies The resting heart rate (HR rest) is the heart rate when you are resting. In adults, the resting heart rate is typically between 60 and 100 BPM. Athletes may have a resting heart rate below 60 BPM. To measure your resting heart rate, you must have been resting for at least 10 minutes before taking your pulse. What are the different training zones? Betsuyaku, T. et al. Overexpression of cardiac connexin45 increases susceptibility to ventricular tachyarrhythmias in vivo. Am. J. Physiol. Hear. Circ. Physiol. 290, 163–171 (2006).

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All ECG analysis was done using bespoke ECG analysis software written in MATLAB (R2018a; Mathworks, USA) 11. Briefly, sweeps of 10,000 data points were taken, corresponding to 10 s in mice and ~39/~78 s in humans (analyzed at 256/128 Hz), and R waves detected by amplitude thresholding and subsequent template matching to the mean beat waveform of that sweep. Any waveforms that differed significantly from that template were removed. Individual recording sweeps were excluded from subsequent analysis where the mean amplitude of discriminated beat waveforms was <3 times the lower limit of the amplitude window, where baseline variation in the ECG trace exceeds 1/3 of that lower limit and/or where >20% of the events detected were excluded by the template matching algorithm. The scientists from the University of Bristol and the MultiMedica Group in Italy say that the breakthrough could offer a possible way to treat patients with heart failure. Vollmer, M. A robust, simple and reliable measure of heart rate variability using relative RR intervals. Comput. Cardiol. 42, 609–612 (2015).