Slow sinus heart rate as a potential predictive factor of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in stroke patients

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-125

  Hoshino, Takao ^a   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Nagao, Takehiko ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^a   Uchiyama, Shinichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Heart rate; Ischemic stroke; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; Risk factor; Sinus rhythm

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE PATIENT; TELEMETRY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC PATIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART RATE; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; SINUS NODE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

EID: 84885577046     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000353184     Document Type: Article

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