The prognostic importance of isolated P-wave abnormalities

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Kaykha, Amir ^a   Myers, Jonathan ^b   Desser, Kenneth B ^a   Laufer, Nathan ^a   Froelicher, Victor F ^b  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; P WAVE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM PATTERN; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE;

EID: 77953866694     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20628     Document Type: Article

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