Heart rate variability enhances the prognostic value of established parameters in patients with congestive heart failure

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1003-1012

  Krüger, Carsten ^a,c   Lahm, T ^a   Zugck, C ^a   Kell, R ^a   Schellberg, D ^a   Schweizer, M W F ^b   Kubler W ^a   Haass, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Office for Biosignal Engineering   (Germany)

^c Theresienkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Heart rate variability; Predictor; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0036924059     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-002-0868-1     Document Type: Article

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