Predictive value of beat-to-beat qt variability index across the continuum of left ventricular dysfunction competing risks of noncardiac or cardiovascular death and sudden or nonsudden cardiac death

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 719-727

  Tereshchenko, Larisa G ^a   Cygankiewicz, Iwona ^b   McNitt, Scott ^c   Vazquez, Rafael ^d   Bayes Genis, Antoni ^e   Han, Lichy ^f   Sur, Sanjoli ^f   Couderc, Jean Philippe ^c   Berger, Ronald D ^a   De Luna, Antoni Bayes ^g   Zareba, Wojciech ^c  

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^f Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^g Institut Català de Ciències Cardiovasculars   (Spain)

Author keywords

ECG; Ejection fraction; Heart failure; QT variability; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; SUDDEN DEATH;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84867178395     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.112.970541     Document Type: Article

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