Maximal ascending and descending slopes of the T wave in men and women

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 267-276

  Yang, Hua ^a   Elko, Paul ^b   Fromm, Barbara S ^c   Baga, John J ^a   Pires, Luis A ^a   Schuger, Claudio D ^a   Steinman, Russell T ^a   Lehmann, Michael H ^a  

^a SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Marquette Electronics Inc   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac repolarization; ECG; Sex difference; T waves

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; QT INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; T WAVE;

EID: 0030699438     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0736(97)80038-6     Document Type: Article

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