Prevalence of potential noninvasive arrhythmia risk predictors in healthy, middle-aged persons

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-46

  Grimm, Wolfram ^a   Liedtke, Julia ^a   Müller, Hans Helge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroreflex sensitivity; Heart rate variability; Signal averaged ECG; t wave alternans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRATIFICATION; T WAVE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; BAROREFLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 2142858722     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1542-474X.2003.08107.x     Document Type: Article

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