Seasonal variation of P-wave dispersion in healthy subjects

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 307-311

  Kose, Sedat ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a,b   Can, Ilknur ^a,b   Iyisoy, Atilla ^a   Kilic, Ayhan ^a   Amasyali, Basri ^a   Kursaklioglu, Hurkan ^a   Isik, Ersoy ^a   Oto, Ali ^a,b   Demirtas, Ertan ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

And seasonal variation; ECG; P dispersion; P wave duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0036803123     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jelc.2002.35848     Document Type: Article

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