Baroreflex sensitivity as a cardiac and arrhythmia mortality risk stratifier

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10 II, 1997, Pages 2602-2613

  La Rovere, Maria Teresa ^a   Schwartz, Peter J ^b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030701596     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06110.x     Document Type: Article

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