A system for monitoring autonomic health of a person, comprising: an autonomic nerve stimulation (ANS) dose delivery system configured to provide an ANS dose over a plurality of burst periods using a burst of stimulation pulses within a portion of each burst period and not delivering stimulation pulses within another portion of each burst period to stimulate autonomic neural tissue at a programmed stimulation dose, the ANS dose delivery system including a pulse generator configured to generate stimulation pulses and a controller operably connected to the pulse generator to control the pulse generator to provide the ANS dose; a response extractor, the response extractor configured to: record physiological parameter values, the physiologic parameter values including: first population data that includes evoked response (ER) values corresponding to evoked physiological responses to the burst of stimulation pulses for the plurality of burst periods; and second population data that includes reference values that include no effect (NE) values corresponding to times without a physiological response; and calculate evoked response metrics (ERMs) using the first and second population data, each of the ERMs being dependent on background autonomic activity; analyze the ERMs to provide ERM analysis; and provide an indication of autonomic health using the ERM analysis. an autonomic nerve stimulation (ANS) dose delivery system configured to provide an ANS dose over a plurality of burst periods using a burst of stimulation pulses within a portion of each burst period and not delivering stimulation pulses within another portion of each burst period to stimulate autonomic neural tissue at a programmed stimulation dose, the ANS dose delivery system including a pulse generator configured to generate stimulation pulses and a controller operably connected to the pulse generator to control the pulse generator to provide the ANS dose; a response extractor, the response extractor configured to: record physiological parameter values, the physiologic parameter values including: first population data that includes evoked response (ER) values corresponding to evoked physiological responses to the burst of stimulation pulses for the plurality of burst periods; and second population data that includes reference values that include no effect (NE) values corresponding to times without a physiological response; and calculate evoked response metrics (ERMs) using the first and second population data, each of the ERMs being dependent on background autonomic activity; analyze the ERMs to provide ERM analysis; and provide an indication of autonomic health using the ERM analysis. record physiological parameter values, the physiologic parameter values including: first population data that includes evoked response (ER) values corresponding to evoked physiological responses to the burst of stimulation pulses for the plurality of burst periods; and second population data that includes reference values that include no effect (NE) values corresponding to times without a physiological response; and first population data that includes evoked response (ER) values corresponding to evoked physiological responses to the burst of stimulation pulses for the plurality of burst periods; and second population data that includes reference values that include no effect (NE) values corresponding to times without a physiological response; and calculate evoked response metrics (ERMs) using the first and second population data, each of the ERMs being dependent on background autonomic activity; analyze the ERMs to provide ERM analysis; and provide an indication of autonomic health using the ERM analysis. <EOS>