Circadian and gender effects on repolarization in healthy adults: A study using harmonic regression analysis: ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Mayuga, Kenneth A ^a   Thattassery, Emil ^a   Taneja, Taresh ^a   Karha, Juhana ^a   Subacius, Haris ^a   Goldberger, Jeffrey ^a   Kadish, Alan ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian variation; QT dispersion; Repolarization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 75649112959     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2009.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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