Recent ventricular repolarization markers in resistant hypertension: Are they different from the traditional QT interval?

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-53

  Salles, Gil F ^a   Cardoso, Claudia R L ^a   Leocadio, Sharon M ^a   Muxfeldt, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOMETRY; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QT INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; T WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SYSTOLE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38349130211     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2007.4     Document Type: Article

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