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This database includes beat annotation files for 54 long-term ECG recordings of subjects in normal sinus rhythm (30 men, aged 28.5 to 76, and 24 women, aged 58 to 73). The original ECG recordings (not available) were digitized at 128 samples per sec…

This database includes 18 long-term ECG recordings of subjects referred to the Arrhythmia Laboratory at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). Subjects included in this database were found to have had no si…

The data consist of 70 records, divided into a learning set of 35 records (a01 through a20, b01 through b05, and c01 through c10), and a test set of 35 records (x01 through x35), all of which may be downloaded from this page. Recordings vary in leng…

Fetal cardiac arrhythmias are defined as any irregular fetal cardiac rhythm or regular rhythm at a rate outside the reference range of 100 to 200 beat per minute (bpm). Arrhythmias are discovered in about 1% of fetuses with about 10% of these being …

Functional metrics of autonomic control of heart rate, including baroreflex sensitivity, have been shown to be strongly associated with cardiovascular risk. A decrease in baroreflex sensitivity with aging is hypothesized to represent a contributing …

The 2017 PhysioNet/CinC Challenge aims to encourage the development of algorithms to classify, from a single short ECG lead recording (between 30 s and 60 s in length), whether the recording shows normal sinus rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF), an al…

Acute Brain injury (ABI) is a devastating event requiring intensive acute treatment and post-injury rehabilitation, both delivered for indeterminate periods of time. For severe ABIs, acute treatment is aimed at stabilizing the patient to prevent sec…

The recordings in this collection were originally selected for inclusion in the MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database, but were excluded after study revealed low-grade arrhythmias.

In its June 2008 issue, the editors of Chaos announced a new feature, "Controversial Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics". The first controversial topic to be aired is "Is the Normal Heart Rate Chaotic?". This project provides data to explore this question.