Heart rate variability (HRV) is the variation in the time between two consecutive heartbeats over a specific period. Doctors may use HRV as an indicator for certain aspects of a person’s health, ...

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Unlike your resting heart rate, which you can take with nothing more than a stopwatch and a finger to your pulse, tracking your heart rate variability (HRV) is more complicated. While it used to ...