Postexercise recovery of the spatial QRS/T angle as a predictor of sudden cardiac death

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1083-1089

  Kenttä, Tuomas ^a   Viik, Jari ^b   Karsikas, Mari ^a   Seppänen, Tapio ^a   Nieminen, Tuomo ^b,c   Lehtimäki, Terho ^b   Nikus, Kjell ^d   Lehtinen, Rami ^e   Kähönen, Mika ^b   Huikuri, Heikki V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram; Exercise; Hysteresis; Recovery; Repolarization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE RECOVERY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; T WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84862890663     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.02.030     Document Type: Article

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