Heart rate variability in patients with end-stage renal disease: An emerging predictive tool for sudden cardiac death?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3061-3062

  Chan, Christopher T ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluid overload; Heart rate variability; Sudden cardiac death; Sympathetic overactivity

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SINUS NODE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52449131800     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn280     Document Type: Editorial

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