Predicting sudden cardiac death in healthy humans: Is there more to autonomic balance than we know?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 306-307

  Gopinathannair, Rakesh ^a   Martins, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 38649115672     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.10.038     Document Type: Editorial

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