Sleeping altitude and sudden cardiac death

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-75

  Lo, Monica Y ^a,b,c   Daniels, James D ^a,b,c   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,b,c,d,e   Burtscher, Martin ^f  

^a Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology (111A)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

^e PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIING; SLEEP; SMOKING; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; VICTIM;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; AUSTRIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP;

EID: 84879782673     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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