Age-related changes in the electrophysiologic properties of the atrium in patients with no history of atrial fibrillation

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-393

  Sakabe, Koichi ^a   Fukuda, Nobuo ^a   Nada, Teru ^a   Shinohara, Hisanori ^a   Tamura, Yoshiyuki ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^b   Nishikado, Akiyoshi ^b   Oki, Takashi ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Electrophysiology; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART EXCITATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME; AGE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0037830113     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.44.385     Document Type: Article

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