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In this paper, we research the relation between HRV and the age and gender of the patient to adjust the threshold correspondingly to the noninvasive glucose estimator that we are developing and improve its performance. While most of the literature research so far addresses healthy patients and only short- or long-term HRV, we apply a more holistic approach by including both healthy patients and patients with arrhythmia and different lengths of HRV measurements (short, middle, and long). The methods necessary to determine the correlation are (i) point biserial correlation, (ii) Pearson correlation, and (iii) Spearman rank correlation. We developed a mathematical model of a linear or monotonic dependence function and a machine learning and deep learning model, building a classification detector and level estimator. We used electrocardiogram (ECG) data from 4 different datasets consisting of 284 subjects. Age and gender influence HRV with a moderate correlation value of 0.58. This work elucidates the intricate interplay between individual input and output parameters compared with previous efforts, where correlations were found between HRV and blood glucose levels using deep learning techniques. It can successfully detect the influence of each input.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23218697","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,25]],"date-time":"2023-10-25T06:19:58Z","timestamp":1698214798000},"page":"8697","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Age and Gender Impact on Heart Rate Variability towards Noninvasive Glucose Measurement"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-7842-0862","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aleksandar","family":"Stojmenski","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. 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