Interatrial conduction time and incident atrial fibrillation: A prospective cohort study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1095-1101

  Deftereos, Spyridon ^a,b   Kossyvakis, Charalampos ^a,c   Efremidis, Michael ^d   Bouras, Georgios ^a   Panagopoulou, Vasiliki ^c,e   Papadimitriou, Charalampos ^a   Doudoumis, Konstantinos ^a   Deftereos, Gerasimos ^a   Synetos, Andreas ^e   Davlouros, Periklis ^f   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^e   Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^f   Manolis, Antonis S ^e   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a,b,c  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^d EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electrophysiologic study; Electrophysiologic test; Incidence; Interatrial conduction time; P dispersion; P duration; P wave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; AGED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84903303974     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.03.053     Document Type: Article

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