Seasonal variations in a trial fibrillation related hospitalizations

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1555-1556

  Deshmukh, Abhishek J ^a   Pant, Sadip ^a   Kumar, Gagan ^b   Hayes, Kevin ^a   Badheka, Apurva O ^c   Dabhadkar, Kaustubh C ^d   Paydak, Hakan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Hospitalizations; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATIONS; HUMAN; LETTER; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; SEASONS;

EID: 84885310612     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.12.104     Document Type: Article

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