Complexity in Health and Well-being

Abstract

Human body, consisting of three holistic systems – regulatory, supplying and periphery (Vesalius, 1543), is a complex organism, reflecting difficult and non-linear relationships among its parts. When dealing with human health and well-being, it is important to consider all systems working together and not look at health issues separately. In order to analyze complex processes within a human body, it was chosen to examine dynamic characteristics of art students’ ECG parameters during different genre roles. Methods. The computerized electrocardiograph analysis system “Kaunas-Load”, developed at the Institute of Cardiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, was used for ECG parameters registration, initial data processing, noise filtering and ECG complexes recognizing. The following ECG parameters were addressed: RR interval, JT interval. Interfaces amongst these parameters were evaluated by using the Dsk1 (RR; JT) matrix analysis discriminant. Comparison of the discriminant characteristics for different subsets of the sample was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results of the study revealed that the discriminant of the regulatory and supplying systems was decreasing through different stages of the research. These findings lead to conclusions that our emotional state is highly related to our physical reactions and should be taken as a complex and unified system.