Influence of aging and chronic heart failure on temporal dispersion of myocardial repolarization

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 293-300

  Piccirillo, Gianfranco ^a   Moscucci, Federica ^a   Pascucci, Matteo ^a   Antonella Pappadà, Maria ^a   D'Alessandro, Gaetana ^a   Rossi, Pietro ^b   Quaglione, Raffaele ^a   Barba, Daniele Di ^a   Barillà, Francesco ^a   Magrì, Damiano ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic heart failure; Heart rate variability; QT variability; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; Q WAVE; QT DISPERSION; RESTING HEART RATE; RR INTERVAL; T WAVE;

AGING; CHRONIC HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; QT VARIABILITY; SUDDEN DEATH;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84875114429     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S41879     Document Type: Article

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