Risk stratification after acute myocardial infarction by heart rate turbulence

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1221-1226

  Barthel, Petra ^b   Schneider, Raphael ^b   Bauer, Axel ^b   Ulm, Kurt ^a   Schmitt, Claus ^b   Schömig, Albert ^b   Schmidt, Georg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Heart rate; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVORS; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 0041915676     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000088783.34082.89     Document Type: Article

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