Prevalence of Interatrial Block in Young Healthy Men <35 Years of Age

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 995-997

  Gialafos, Elias ^a   Psaltopoulou, Theodora ^b   Papaioannou, Theodore G ^a   Synetos, Andreas ^a   Dilaveris, Polychronis ^a   Andrikopoulos, George ^a   Vlasis, Konstantinos ^a   Gialafos, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a First Department of Cardiology

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTERATRIAL BLOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; P WAVE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GREECE; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 34548455352     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.04.041     Document Type: Article

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