QT-interval duration and mortality rate results from the third national health and nutrition examination survey

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 1727-1733

  Zhang, Yiyi ^a   Post, Wendy S ^a,b   Dalal, Darshan ^b   Blasco Colmenares, Elena ^a   Tomaselli, Gordon F ^b   Guallar, Eliseo ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RACE; RR INTERVAL; SEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054914957     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.433     Document Type: Article

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