Triggering of ventricular ectopic beats by emotional, physical, and meteorologic stress: Role of age, sex, medications, and chronic risk factors

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 894-906

  Čulić, Viktor ^a   Silić, Nardi ^a   Mirić, Dinko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL; NITRATE; OXPRENOLOL; PROPAFENONE; PROPRANOLOL; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG USE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WIND;

AGE FACTORS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES; WEATHER;

EID: 31744443144     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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