Figure 3

Lag response of Poincaré plot indices in patients of CHF and normal subjects. Panels A-D show the lag responses for sequences 50 beats long whereas panels E-H show the lag responses for sequences 50000 beats long. All the panels on the left hand side relate to subjects with CHF whereas the panels on the right hand side relate to normal subjects. We first estimated the Poincaré plot indices for each subject in both groups. We, then, estimated the averages for each group and plotted the estimates against the lag. In the normal subjects, all the Poincaré plot indices showed a curvilinear association with lag. In patients of CHF the curvilinearity was lost.