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KMID : 1123920060200020482
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Korean Journal of Oriental Physiology and Pathology
2006 Volume.20 No. 2 p.482 ~ p.487
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Relationships between depression, anxiety, ’exterior-interior pattern and cold-heat pattern’ and Heart Rate Variability in healthy Subjects
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Kim Ji-Eun
Lee Jeong-Chan
Kang Hee-Chul
Lee Seung-Gi
Park Kyung-Mo
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Abstract
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The identification of the exterior-interior pattern and the cold-heat pattern is one of the most frequently used diagnostic methods in Oriental medicine. No systematic studies, however, have yet been conducted to determine the emotional and autonomic factors involved in the exterior-interior and cold-heat. In this study, the relationships between depression, anxiety, and the exterior-interior and cold-heat patterns in 100 healthy female volunteers with a mean age of 42.77 were also investigated. The autonomic nervous system’s control of human temperature is a well known fact. Thus, this paper also aimed to investigate the correlationof the autonomic nervous system and patterns of the exterior-interior and cold-heat. The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV), which has become a popular non-invasive tool for assessing the activities of the autonomic nervous system, was conducted in this study. No relationship was found between the exterior-interior and cold-heat pattern scores and the degree-of-depression scores. But there was a significant difference between the exterior-interior and cold-heat pattern scores of the different anxiety types, and between those of the different anxiety levels. The depression and anxiety levels also had an effect on the HRV indices.
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KEYWORD
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Heart Rate Variability, depression, anxiety, exterior-interior and cold-heat
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