Reference values for short‐term resting‐state heart rate variability in healthy adults: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health—ELSA‐Brasil study

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a psychophysiological phenomenon with broad implications, providing an accessible index of vagal function, underpinning psychological constructs, including the capacity for social engagement and emotion regulation, and may predict future morbidity and mortality. However, the lack of reference values for short‐term HRV indices for participants of both sexes across the age spectrum is a limiting factor. This was the...