Findings on standard electrocardiograms of elderly in-patients with diagnosis other than cardiac;Rilievi in elettrocardiogrammi standard di anziani ospedalizzati con diagnosi non cardiaca

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 1998, Pages

  Ronchetto, Flavio ^a,b   Musso, Valter ^a  

^a Divisione di Medicina 3   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aged; Coronary risk; Electrocardiogram; Ischemic heart disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 18744424906     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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