Twenty-four-hour ambulatory electrocardiography in elderly subjects: Prevalence of various arrhythmias and prognostic implications (report from the Bronx Longitudinal Aging Study)

American Heart Journal

Volumn 132, Issue 2 I, 1996, Pages 297-302

  Frishman, W H ^a   Heiman, M ^a   Karpenos, A ^a   Ooi, W L ^a   Mitzner, A ^a   Goldkorn, R ^a   Greenberg, S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029744166     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(96)90425-1     Document Type: Article

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