Accurately measured and properly heart-rate corrected QTc intervals show little daytime variability

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1424-1431

  Malik, Marek ^a   Hnatkova, Katerina ^a   Schmidt, Anna ^b   Smetana, Peter ^b  

^a St Paul's Cardiac Electrophysiology   (United Kingdom)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

ECG measurement; QT interval; QT RR hysteresis; QTc variability; RR interval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RR INTERVAL;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 54549090165     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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