Heart rate-corrected QT interval is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in individuals with type 2 Diabetes: The diabetes heart study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1454-1461

  Cox, Amanda J ^a   Azeem, Amir ^a   Yeboah, Joseph ^a   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a   Aggarwal, Shivani R ^a   Bertoni, Alain G ^a   Carr, J Jeffrey ^a   Freedman, Barry I ^a   Herrington, David M ^a   Bowden, Donald W ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; QT INTERVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899068396     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-1257     Document Type: Article

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