Fine-tuning a heart-brain connection anxiety in atrial fibrillation

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-308

  Pozuelo, Leopoldo ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGER; ANXIETY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TYPE A BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; MALE; NOTE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANXIETY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84864304544     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.967778     Document Type: Editorial

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