Restoring sinus rhythm improves excessive heart rate response to exercise in patients with atrial fibrillation

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-82

  Yigit, Zerrin ^a   Akdur, Hülya ^a   Arabaci, Ph T Ümit ^a,b   Gürses, Hülya Nilgün ^a   Güzelsoy, Deniz ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Acibadem   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Exercise

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; ISOTONIC EXERCISE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037267276     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.44.73     Document Type: Article

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