{"id":1019,"date":"2023-11-11T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:56:17","slug":"people-with-high-hrv-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"People with high HRV live longer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HRV declines with age<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1019_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1019_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1019_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=968\">RMSSD by age and gender<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1019_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. When looking at the statistics it appears that the rate of declines slows as we get older, and then reverses after 80<span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_1019_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_1019_1('footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1019_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/20381674\/\">Relation of high heart rate variability to healthy longevity<\/a><\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1019_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top center', relative: true, offset: [-7, 0], });<\/script>. The reason for this pattern lies in the way that averages work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People with lower HRV die sooner, dropping out of the population. Losing the people with lower HRV results in a slowing of the decline in the averages, and ultimately a reversal, as only the people with the highest HRV continue to live on.<\/p>\n<p>Improving HRV is a choice, based on lifestyle. Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=121\">Improving the numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-mute footnotes_reference_container\"> <div class=\"footnote_container_prepare\"><p><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_label pointer\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_1019_1();\">References<\/span><span role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button\" style=\"display: none;\" onclick=\"footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_1019_1();\">[<a id=\"footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_1019_1\">+<\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div id=\"footnote_references_container_1019_1\" style=\"\"><table class=\"footnotes_table footnote-reference-container\"><caption class=\"accessibility\">References<\/caption> <tbody> \r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1019_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_1');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_1\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>1<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=968\">RMSSD by age and gender<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n<tr class=\"footnotes_plugin_reference_row\"> <th scope=\"row\" class=\"footnote_plugin_index_combi pointer\"  onclick=\"footnote_moveToAnchor_1019_1('footnote_plugin_tooltip_1019_1_2');\"><a id=\"footnote_plugin_reference_1019_1_2\" class=\"footnote_backlink\"><span class=\"footnote_index_arrow\">&#8593;<\/span>2<\/a><\/th> <td class=\"footnote_plugin_text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/20381674\/\">Relation of high heart rate variability to healthy longevity<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\r\n\r\n <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function footnote_expand_reference_container_1019_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_1019_1').show(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_1019_1').text('\u2212'); } function footnote_collapse_reference_container_1019_1() { jQuery('#footnote_references_container_1019_1').hide(); jQuery('#footnote_reference_container_collapse_button_1019_1').text('+'); } function footnote_expand_collapse_reference_container_1019_1() { if (jQuery('#footnote_references_container_1019_1').is(':hidden')) { footnote_expand_reference_container_1019_1(); } else { footnote_collapse_reference_container_1019_1(); } } function footnote_moveToReference_1019_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_1019_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } } function footnote_moveToAnchor_1019_1(p_str_TargetID) { footnote_expand_reference_container_1019_1(); var l_obj_Target = jQuery('#' + p_str_TargetID); if (l_obj_Target.length) { jQuery( 'html, body' ).delay( 0 ); jQuery('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: l_obj_Target.offset().top - window.innerHeight * 0.2 }, 380); } }<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HRV declines with age[1]RMSSD by age and gender. When looking at the statistics it appears that the rate of declines slows as we get older, and then reverses after 80[2]Relation of high heart rate variability to healthy longevity. The reason for this pattern lies in the way that averages work.\u00a0 People with lower HRV die&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/?p=1019\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People with high HRV live longer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,100],"tags":[63,13,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrvhealth.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}