Increased QT dispersion and cardiac adrenergic dysinnervation in diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1057-1059

  Shimabukuro, Michio ^a   Chibana, Takao ^a   Yoshida, Hisashi ^a   Nagamine, Fumio ^a   Komiya, Ichiro ^a   Takasu, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC NERVE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030293225     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00538-3     Document Type: Article

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