Slow Heart Rates and Increased Risk of Cardiac Death in Middle-Aged Men

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 1972, Pages 732-748

  Hinkle, Lawrence E ^a   Carver, Susan T ^a   Plakun, Arlene ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUDDEN DEATH; UNITED STATES;

BRADYCARDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW YORK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0015340251     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1972.00320050056006     Document Type: Article

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