Gender-Related Differences in Electrocardiographic Parameters and Their Association With Cardiac Events in Patients After Myocardial Infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-24

  Mieszczanska, Hanna ^a   Pietrasik, Grzegorz ^a   Piotrowicz, Katarzyna ^a   McNitt, Scott ^a   Moss, Arthur J ^a   Zareba, Wojciech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE INVERSION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 37349121427     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.07.077     Document Type: Article

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