Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring to screen for sleep apnea: Is it really that simple?

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 474-475

  Gillis, Anne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 0037566733     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03097.x     Document Type: Note

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