Heart Rate Variability
A measure of your equilibrium and capacity to respond to stress
Like any organism on earth, your equilibrium is constantly challenged by your environmental and daily life stressors. Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) strives to maintain your equilibrium (“homeostasis”) by coordinating and directing your organ systems. Heart rate variability (HRV) measures how well your ANS is performing, and how much capacity you have to tolerate stress from virtually any source.
Certification Program
Clinical Research
HRV-guided interventions have been shown to improve health, wellbeing and fitness:
HRV tracks closely with important physiological changes:
- Sleep quality
- Psychological wellbeing
- Longevity
- Inflammation
- Pain
- Chronic disease progression
Primary Research
HRV & Stress
Meta-analysis of Stress and
Heart Rate Variability
Featured Study: Hye-Geum Kim et al. 2018
HRV and Fitness
Benefits of HRV Tracking
HRV and Health
Chronic activation of our survival mechanism impairs health
Low HRV has been positively correlated with 9 out of 10 leading causes of death.
Low HRV is associated with a 32-45% increased risk for a first cardiovascular event.
HRV Predicts All Cause Mortality and Morbidity
— Dan Quintana, PhD
Examples of Research
Longevity and healthspan
Cardiovascular disease
- Decreased Heart Rate Variability and Its Association with Increased Mortality after Acute Myocardial Infarction
- Predictor of mortality in congestive heart failure and sudden cardiac death
- Relationship between autonomic imbalance and cardiovascular disease
- As a predictor of obstructive angiographic coronary disease
Diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity
Cancer risk and progression
Immune Function
Autoimmunity progression
HRV and other biomarkers of inflammation
Psychosocial health and addiction
Elite HRV is Accurate
Elite HRV has actively worked with over 117 research institutions and organizations (as of Oct ’20), supporting their use of HRV as an important project endpoint. Many of these publications have validated Elite HRV software and hardware as part of their project protocols. A few notables of publications who contacted us and validated our products include:
Tracking cognitive load (mental stress)
Author – Muneeb Imtiaz Ahmad
Deep emotional detection
Kahil Mustafa Jamal S* and Eiji Kamioka
Predicting training effectiveness
J Sports Sci Med. 2018
More research citing Elite HRV
- Predicting training effectiveness (load) here and here
- Validating the HRV accuracy of smartphone apps and tied devices
- Elite HRV as the gold standard to test the accuracy of the Apple Watch
- Understanding the impact of breathing-based stress management
- Tracking cognitive load (mental stress)
- Job performance and mental acuity of laproscopic surgeons
- Deep emotional detection
- The impact of biophilic learning spaces on student success
- As a measure of pediatric cardiovascular risk
- Dietary interventions and aerobic capacity