Is wider worse? QRS duration predicts cardiac mortality in patients with right bundle branch block

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-170

  Adesanya, Christiana O ^a   Yousuf, Kabir A ^b   Co, Carter ^b   Gaur, Shobhana ^b   Ahmed, Sameer ^b   Pothoulakis, Anthony ^b   Suryaprasad, Agaram ^b   Gupta, Satyendra ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac risk; Mortality; QRS duration; Right bundle branch block

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42649115448     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2008.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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