An association between anxiety and neurocardiogenic syncope during head- up tilt table testing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 837-841

  Cohen, Todd J ^a,b   Thayapran, Nallathamby ^a   Ibrahim, Bassiema ^a   Quan, Cindy ^a   Quan, Weilun ^a   Von Zur Muhlen, Friederike ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Gender; Neurocardiogenic syncope; Tilt table testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

EID: 0034088688     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00852.x     Document Type: Article

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