Table 2: Mean and standard deviation of Heart Rate Variability on the time domain and the frequency domain of smokers and non smokers before and after nicotine pulverized oral.

 

Smokers (n = 33)

Non smokers (n = 12)

 

Mean

Stand. Dev.

Mean

Stand. Dev.

RMSSD1

64.07

25.31

34.70

18.35

RMSSD2

63.50

27.37

24.33

16.81

LF (abs)1

2000.87

2249.34

724.46

404.20

LF (abs)2

2295.20

2571.78

786.39

806.58

HF (abs)1

717.62

566.33

554.87

699.85

HF (abs)2

712.90

538.59

342.48

575.25

LF/HF1

2.71

1.59

3.79

4.68

LF/HF2

3.30

2.83

4.49

2.60

RMSSD: The square root of the average of the sum differences square between the intervals R-R adjacent; LF (abs): Low Frequency component of the HRV with absolute numbers; HF (abs): High Frequency component of the HRV with absolute numbers.
The numbers 1 and 2 shown pre and post nicotine pulverized oral.