Incidence and prognostic value of early repolarization pattern in the 12-lead electrocardiogram

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 2931-2937

  Haruta, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Matsuo, Kiyotaka ^a,c   Tsuneto, Akira ^a,b   Ichimaru, Shinichiro ^b   Hida, Ayumi ^b   Sera, Nobuko ^b   Imaizumi, Misa ^b   Nakashima, Eiji ^b   Maemura, Koji ^a   Akahoshi, Masazumi ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^c Saikakai Shibatachokodo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

death sudden; electrocardiography; epidemiology; mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADULT; AGED; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART DEATH; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BRUGADA SYNDROME; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959946978     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.006460     Document Type: Review

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