Point: cardiovascular variability is/is not an index of autonomic control of circulation.

to the editor: In the frame of the Point:Counterpoint debate on cardiovascular variability analysis ([5][1]), the utility of non-linear tools has been highlighted ([1][2]). Actually, complexity-based and non-linear techniques allow aspects of cardiovascular dynamics hardly quantified by traditional

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