Smoking and its effects on heart rate variability

Dina H. Taan Al. Awar; Amani H. Al Yafei; Al Anoud S. Al Fehaidi

doi:10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20220988

Authors

Dina H. Taan Al. Awar Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar
Amani H. Al Yafei Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar
Al Anoud S. Al Fehaidi Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20220988

Keywords:

Smoking, Heart rate variability, Tobacco, Active smoking, Passive smoking

Abstract

Due to smoking's widespread prevalence, it is necessary to explore cost-effective and practical prognostic markers indicating its health effects. Heart rate variability (HRV) may be used to foresee the long-term repercussions of smoking as a simple and affordable approach of forecasting cardiovascular health complications. Smoking has been proven to have a detrimental effect on HRV, which may have a detrimental effect on cardiovascular health. Additionally, we present an overview of the different HRV measurements and their diagnostic utility in the context of heart failure. There is a very detailed look at all the available data on how smoking affects HRV, as well as how different HRV indices show changes in the activity of the body's autonomic nervous system when people smoke. Smoking has been shown to change the autonomic nervous system's normal function, including an increase in sympathetic drive, a decrease in HRV, and a decrease in parasympathetic control. The possible reasons for this decrease in HRV and how it might affect patients are thoroughly discussed.

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Author Biographies

Dina H. Taan Al. Awar, Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar

corresponding and first author

Amani H. Al Yafei, Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar

second author

Al Anoud S. Al Fehaidi, Department of Family Medicine, Primary Healthcare Corporation, Qatar

co-author

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