ECG screening in athletes: Time to develop infrastructure

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1560-1561

  Drezner, Jonathan Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 80053081574     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.05.012     Document Type: Editorial

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