Cardiac arrhythmias and atrioventricular block in a cohort of asymptomatic individuals without heart disease

Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 111-116

  DePaula, Rogério Silva ^a   Antelmi, Ivana ^a   Vincenzi, Marcos Antonio ^a   André, Carmen D S ^a   Artes, Rinaldo ^b   Grupi, César José ^a   Mansur, Alfredo José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Ibmec   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring; Cardiac arrhythmias; Preventive health service

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34548140160     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095950     Document Type: Article

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