Increased short-term variability of the qt interval in professional soccer players: Possible implications for arrhythmia prediction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lengyel, Csaba ^a   Orosz, Andrea ^b   Hegyi, Péter ^a   Komka, Zsolt ^c   Udvardy, Anna ^c   Bosnyák, Edit ^c   Trájer, Emese ^c   Pavlik, Gábor ^c   Tóth, Miklós ^c   Wittmann, Tibor ^a   Papp, Julius Gy ^b,d   Varró, András ^b,d   Baczkó, István ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; QT INTERVAL; REST; TEAM SPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATHLETES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCCER; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954567270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018751     Document Type: Article

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