Prevalence of interatrial block in a general population of elderly people

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 298-300

  Ninios, Ilias ^a,c   Pliakos, Christodoulos ^a   Ninios, Vlasios ^b   Karvounis, Haralampos ^a   Louridas, George ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b St Luke's Hospital   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Interatrial block; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PACEMAKER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 35548953101     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2007.00178.x     Document Type: Article

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