Recommendations regarding dietary intake and caffeine and alcohol consumption in patients with cardiac arrhythmias: What do you tell your patients to do or not to do?

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 529-535

  Glatter, Kathryn A ^a   Myers, Richard ^b   Chiamvimonvat, Nipavan ^b,c  

^a Woodland Clinic Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Northern California Health Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Caffeine; Energy drink; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CAFFEINE; NORADRENALIN; SUGAR;

ADRENALIN RELEASE; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; COFFEE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY DRINK; EXERCISE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TEA; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 84870300211     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: 15343189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-012-0193-6     Document Type: Article

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