Prevalence of electrocardiographic anomalies in young individuals: Relevance to a nationwide cardiac screening program

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 2028-2034

  Chandra, Navin ^a,b   Bastiaenen, Rachel ^a   Papadakis, Michael ^a,b   Panoulas, Vasileios F ^b   Ghani, Saqib ^a   Duschl, Jennifer ^b   Foldes, David ^b   Raju, Hariharan ^a   Osborne, Rebecca ^a,b   Sharma, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electrocardiogram; ethnicity; pre participation screening; sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIAC CHANNELOPATHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; QT INTERVAL; SEX; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; T WAVE INVERSION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ETHNICITY; PRE-PARTICIPATION SCREENING; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900558332     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.01.046     Document Type: Article

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