Elevated blood pressure and electrocardiographic frontal T axis and spatial QRS-T angle changes in postmenopausal women

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 360-364

  Atsma, Femke ^a   Bartelink, Marie Louise E L ^a   van der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a   Kors, Jan A ^b   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Electrocardiography; Heart; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REPOLARIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; T WAVE; VECTORCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 45049088317     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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