Abnormalities in fractal heart rate dynamics in chagas disease

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-153

  De Sousa, Marcos Roberto ^a,d   Huikuri, Heikki V ^b   Lombardi, Federico ^c   Perez, Amanda A ^a   Gomes, Murilo E D ^a   Lins Barros, Marcio Vinícius ^a   Val Barros, Vladimir Costa ^a   Costa Rocha, Manoel Otávio ^a   Pinho Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Fractal correlation; Heart rate; Nonlinear dynamics; Ventricular premature beats

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RR INTERVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FRACTALS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 33645305677     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2006.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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