Impact of age on QT interval and QT dispersion in healthy subjects: A regression analysis

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 326-331

  Mangoni, Arduino A ^a   Kinirons, Mark T ^a   Swift, Cameron G ^a   Jackson, Stephen H D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Electrocardiogram; QT dispersion; QT interval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0038446519     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/32.3.326     Document Type: Article

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