Heart rate variability index in congestive heart failure: Relation to clinical variables and prognosis

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1719-1724

  Wijbenga, J Anke M ^a   Balk, A H M M ^a   Meij, S H ^a   Simoons, M L ^a   Malik, M ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

Clinical status; Congestive heart failure; Heart rate variability index; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032212172     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1998.1148     Document Type: Article

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