Decrease in the heart rate complexity prior to the onset of atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 398-402

  Tuzcu, Volkan ^a   Nas, Selman ^a   Börklü, Tülay ^b   Ugur, Ahmet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complexity; Entropy; Fractal analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS;

EID: 33745212222     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul031     Document Type: Article

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