In shortterm analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), it is hard to get the consistent results. In order to explain this phenomenon, the nonstationary interference on analysis parameters of shortterm HRV has been studied. In virtue of correlation analysis, the results showed that although all the four parameters (HFnorm, LFnorm, SE, BE) considered fluctuate with the lapse of time, only some of them (HFnorm and SE) correlate significantly with nonstationary. Therefore, on the one hand, the consistence of shortterm analysis of HRV is impacted by nonstationary interference, and the equal environmental impacts are prerequisite in collecting HRV data from different subjects to make them comparable. On the other hand, the low frequency fluctuations of HRV contain not only the nonstationary interference, but also the intrinsic cardiac dynamic characteristics. Thus, shortterm analysis methods, which discard absolutely the low frequency components, can not reveal the allsided information of HRV. This is the inherent shortage of shortterm HRV analysis methods, which contributes to the results inconsistence.
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