Healthy Young POLes

HYPOL database with synchronised beat-to-beat heart rate and blood pressure signals

• This database contains the clinical characteristics and beat-to-beat cardiovascular time series of 278 individuals of Polish descent, all aged between 19 and 30 years.
• The data were collected from healthy volunteers who participated in multiple projects carried out at the Department of Cardiology-Intensive Therapy research laboratory, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
• The cardiovascular time series data was obtained from non-invasive continuous finger blood pressure and ECG recordings, with sessions lasting up to 45 minutes.
• The HYPOL database includes an xls file detailing the main clinical characteristics and text files that capture ECG-derived RR intervals, finger systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure values, as well as the duration of interbeat intervals.
• To access the data, please use the following link which will open a simple registration form. In the form, there are six questions about first and family name, email, institution/organization/company, town/city of work, and country.
• The download of data is free of charge after.

Researchers and engineers can use the database for their purposes, except for selling it. The data can be used for testing various mathematical algorithms for heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate asymmtry (HA) HRA, blood pressure variability (BPV), blood pressure asymmetry (BPA), and baroflex function.

Summary of clinical characteristics: 149 women (53.6% of the total) and 129 men, all healthy. The median age of all participants studied 24 years.

The data can be used for the a scientific competition for 2024 organised by the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, the "ESGCO 2024": Characterisation of sex differences in heart rate and blood pressure time series" (https://www.esgco.org/challenges)

For users of the database, please cite the following paper:
Guzik P, Krauze T, Wykrętowicz A, Piskorski J. Healthy Young POLes – HYPOL database with synchronised beat-to-beat heart rate and blood pressure signals: HYPOL – Cardiovascular Time Series Database. JMS [Internet]. 2023 Nov. 13 [cited 2023 Nov. 13];:e941.

The datasharing of this database is covered by the Project “Development of the University Centre for Sports and Medical Studies in Poznan, Poland” (Number: NdS/544750/2021/2022) with Principal Investigator Prof. Przemysław Guzik. The Ministry of Education and Science, Warsaw, Poland, funded the Project within the “Science for Society” Programme.