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heart rate variability

English translation: heart rate variability

21:20 Jan 7, 2018
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
English term or phrase: heart rate variability
Effects of hearing natural sounds on oxytocin and cortisol concentrations and heart rate variabilities
Or
Effects of hearing natural sounds on oxytocin and cortisol concentrations and heart beat fluctuations

I think heart rate variabilities is more common. But some doctors use heart beat fluctuations.

Which is more common?

Thank you very much.
Mitsuko Yoshida
Local time: 20:11
Selected answer:heart rate variability
Explanation:
"Heart rate variability (HRV) is the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats. It is measured by the variation in the beat-to-beat interval."

I found about 1,990,000 results for "heart rate variability" and only 52,000 for "heart rate fluctuation" in Google Search. Definitely, variability is more popular.
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Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 04:11
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heart rate variability


Explanation:
"Heart rate variability (HRV) is the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats. It is measured by the variation in the beat-to-beat interval."

I found about 1,990,000 results for "heart rate variability" and only 52,000 for "heart rate fluctuation" in Google Search. Definitely, variability is more popular.


    https://www.google.com/search?q=%22heart+rate+variability%22&oq=%22heart+rate+variability%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.6311j0j7&sourceid=chrome&
Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 04:11
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
Grading comment
Thank you very much!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
7 days
agree  Jörgen Slet: "heart rate fluctuation" is fine as well, "heartbeat fluctuation" sounds ambiguous?(but I'm not a native) but is also used in papers as a synonym (but seems the authors of these papers tend to be Japanese or Chinese)
14 days
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