Syncope while driving. Clinical characteristics, causes, and prognosis

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 928-934

  Sorajja, Dan ^a   Nesbitt, Gillian C ^a   Hodge, David O ^a   Low, Phillip A ^a   Hammill, Stephen C ^a   Gersh, Bernard J ^a   Shen, Win Kuang ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Prognosis; Survival; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; SYNCOPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 70349758743     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.827626     Document Type: Article

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