Assessment of repolarization heterogeneity for prediction of mortality in cardiovascular disease: Peak to the end of the T wave interval and nondipolar repolarization components

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-308

  Smetana, Peter ^a,b   Schmidt, Anna ^b   Zabel, Markus ^c   Hnatkova, Katerina ^d   Franz, Michael ^e   Huber, Kurt ^b   Malik, Marek ^a,d  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d St Paul's Cardiac Electrophysiology   (United Kingdom)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Electrocardiography; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ECG ABNORMALITY; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QT INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVOR; T WAVE;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VETERANS;

EID: 79955067521     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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