Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

The researchers who conducted a recently published study using a short breathing protocol to measure heart rate variability (HRV) in a large group of Dutch workers say it’s the first of its kind.
"This is the first study," the researchers explained, "to explore a 1-minute paced deep-breathing HRV protocol as an objective screening measure for multiple future health issues in a working population."
The study, Exploring a 1-Minute Paced Deep-Breathing Measurement of Heart Rate Variability as Part of a Workers’ Health Assessment, explored associations between a compressed measure of HRV and health-related parameters. It was intended to be a first step to studying the value of using HRV measures in a workers’ health assessment (WHA). (HRV, a measure of the consecutive differences in time between heartbeats.)