Effect of serum electrolyte and bicarbonate concentration changes during hemodialysis sessions on heart rate variability.
Conclusion: HRV decreased in chronic HD patients. The decrease in HRV in diabetic uremic patients was higher than in uremic patients without diabetes. The change of serum electrolyte and bicarbonate concentrations during HD did not affect HRV.
PMID: 22383344 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)