Gender differences in ventricular repolarization: Terminal T wave interval was shorter in women than in men

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 59-64

  Nakagawa, Mikiko ^a   Takahashi, Naohiko ^a   Watanabe, Maki ^a   Ichinose, Masashi ^a   Nobe, Seiki ^a   Yonemochi, Hidetoshi ^a   Ito, Morio ^a   Saikawa, Tetsunori ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender difference; JT interval; QT interval; Ta e interval; Transmural dispersion of repolarization; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QT INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0037250264     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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