Timing of life-threatening arrhythmias detected by implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in relation to changes in cosmophysical factors

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 437-440

  Stoupel, Elyiahu ^a,b   Kusniec, Jairo ^a,b   Mazur, Alexander ^a,b   Abramson, Evgeny ^a   Israelevich, Peter ^b   Strasberg, Boris ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray (neutron) activity; Geomagnetic activity; Implantable cardioverter defribrillator; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COSMIC RADIATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 54849416372     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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