Association of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Interatrial Block Over Prospectively Followed Controls With Comparable Echocardiographic Parameters

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 390-392

  Ariyarajah, Vignendra ^a   Apiyasawat, Sirin ^b   Fernandes, Jaxon ^b   Kranis, Mark ^b   Spodick, David H ^b,c  

^a ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SINOATRIAL BLOCK; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846421638     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.08.043     Document Type: Article

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