Individual patterns of QT/RR relationship

Cardiac Electrophysiology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 282-288

  Batchvarov, Velislav ^a   Malik, Marek ^a  

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

Author keywords

QT interval; Repolarization; Torsade de pointes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QT INTERVAL; RR INTERVAL;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SYSTOLE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0036754811     PISSN: 13852264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016393328485     Document Type: Article

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