Stepwise strategy of using short- and long-term heart rate variability for risk stratification after myocardial infarction

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages 1845-1851

  Faber, Thomas S ^a,b   Staunton, Anne ^a   Hnatkova, Katerina ^a   Camm, A John ^a   Malik, Marek ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

arrhythmias; autonomic nervous system; mortality; myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029910869     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03238.x     Document Type: Article

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