Complete bundle branch block as an independent predictor of all-cause mortality: Report of 7,073 patients referred for nuclear exercise testing

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 253-259

  Hesse, Barbara ^a   Diaz, Lazaro A ^a   Snader, Claire E ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REST; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0035119723     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00713-0     Document Type: Article

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