Cold Monday mornings prove dangerous: Epidemiology of sudden cardiac death

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 139-144

  Arntz, Hans Richard ^a   Müller Nordhorn, Jaqueline ^b   Willich, Stefan N ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUDDEN DEATH;

AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034971801     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200106000-00001     Document Type: Review

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