The association of QT dispersion and QT dispersion ratio with extent and severity of coronary artery disease

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-51

  Yilmaz, Remzi ^a,b   Demirbag, Recep ^a   Gur, Mustafa ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Angiography; Atherosclerosis; Coronary; QT dispersion; QT dispersion ratio; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33644970641     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2006.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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