The diagnostic value of QRS changes for prediction of coronary artery disease during exercise testing in women: False-positive rates

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 147-154

  Yosefy, Chaim ^a,b   Cantor, Angel ^a   Reisin, Leonardo ^a   Efrati, Shai ^a   Ilia, Reuven ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise test; False positive; Qrs width; Women

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THALLIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 2342473259     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200405000-00003     Document Type: Article

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