Quality of Life Within One Year Following Presentation After Transient Loss of Consciousness

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 672-676

  van Dijk, Nynke ^a   Sprangers, Mirjam A ^a   Boer, Kimberly R ^a   Colman, Nancy ^a   Wieling, Wouter ^a   Linzer, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLAPSE; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENCE RISK; SYNCOPE;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547691451     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.03.085     Document Type: Article

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