Electrocardiogram Comparisons Highlight the Differences (image)

Case Western Reserve University

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Compared to a neurologically normal sleeping child, a sleeping child with epilepsy has a slower heart rate and the increase in heart rate during inhalation and decrease during exhalation, called the sinus arrhythmia, is more pronounced.

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Roberto Fernández Galán, Siddharth Sivakumar

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