Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a predictor of sudden cardiac death after myocardial infarction

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 376-382

  Peltola, Mirja ^a   Tulppo, Mikko P ^b   Kiviniemi, Antti ^b   Hautala, Arto J ^b   Seppänen, Tapio ^a   Barthel, Petra ^d   Bauer, Axel ^d   Schmidt, Georg ^d   Huikuri, Heikki V ^a   Mäkikallio, Timo H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Verve   (Finland)

^c LAPLAND CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEATH; AGED; ALGORITHM; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44949095440     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 16512219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890701884659     Document Type: Article

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