Prolonged QRS duration on the resting ECG is associated with sudden death risk in coronary disease, independent of prolonged ventricular repolarization

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1562-1567

  Teodorescu, Carmen ^a   Reinier, Kyndaron ^a   Uy Evanado, Audrey ^a   Navarro, Jo ^a   Mariani, Ronald ^a   Gunson, Karen ^b   Jui, Jonathan ^b   Chugh, Sumeet S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrocardiogram; Epidemiology; population; predictor; prevention; risk; stratification; sudden cardiac death; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

AGED; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QRS COMPLEX; QT PROLONGATION; REST; REVIEW; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SINUS RHYTHM; SUDDEN DEATH; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053055376     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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