Frequent ventricular ectopy after exercise as a predictor of death

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 781-790

  Frolkis, Joseph P ^a   Pothier, Claire E ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TORSADE DES POINTES;

AGED; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 0037468409     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa022353     Document Type: Article

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