Seasonal variation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation documented by 24-hour Holter electrocardiogram

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Watanabe, Eiichi ^a   Kuno, Yukiko ^a   Takasuga, Hirohisa ^a   Tong, MaoQing ^a   Sobue, Yoshihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Tatsushi ^a   Kodama, Itsuo ^b   Hishida, Hitoshi ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory electrocardiogram; Cardiac arrhythmia; Chronobiology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; SUNLIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 33845803764     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.09.030     Document Type: Article

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