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    • The balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic activity before sleep correlates with sleep efficiency.

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    • To investigate if Heart Rate Variability (HRV) metrics before sleep onset can predict sleep quality and architecture in healthy subjects.
    • To analyze these predictions within the general sample group and specific chronotype subgroups (Evening-Intermediate).

    Main Methods:

    • Extraction of Low/High Frequencies (LF/HF) and other HRV metrics during the pre-sleep resting period.
    • Analysis of linear correlations between HRV metrics and sleep quality/architecture parameters.

    Main Results:

    • Significant linear correlations were identified between pre-sleep HRV metrics and various sleep quality/architecture parameters.
    • HRV metrics demonstrated predictive capability for sleep outcomes in the overall group and chronotype subgroups.

    Conclusions:

    • Pre-sleep HRV analysis offers a potential method for predicting sleep quality and architecture.
    • This predictive capability may enable the development of targeted behavioral interventions during bedtime to enhance sleep quality.