Power-law relationship of heart rate variability as a predictor of mortality in the elderly

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 2031-2036

  Huikuri, Heikki V ^a   Mäkikallio, Timo H ^a   Airaksinen, K E Juhani ^a   Seppänen, Tapio ^a   Puukka, Pauli ^b   Räihä, Ismo J ^c   Sourander, Leif B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b SOCIAL INSURANCE INSTITUTION   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging; Death, sudden; Intervals; Population

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0344936721     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.20.2031     Document Type: Article

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