The role of heart rate variability in prognosis for different modes of death in chronic heart failure

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 892-904

  Sandercock, Gavin Richard H ^a,b   Brodie, David A ^a  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33747105133     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00457.x     Document Type: Review

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