The significance of heart rate turbulence in predicting major cardiovascular events in patients after myocardial infarction treated invasively

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 230-240

  Cebula, Sylwia ^a   Sredniawa, Beata ^a   Kowalczyk, Jacek ^a   Musialik Lydka, Agata ^a   Wozniak, Aleksandra ^a   Sedkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Swiatkowski, Andrzej ^a   Kalarus, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; heart rate turbulence; major adverse cardiovascular events; myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE TURBULENCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84864221465     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2012.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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