Racial differences in the ECG - Selected aspects

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 809-814

  Macfarlane, P W ^a   Katibi, I A ^b   Hamde, S T ^c   Singh, D ^d   Clark, E ^a   Devine, B ^a   Francq, B G ^a   Lloyd, S ^a   Kumar, V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^c Institute of Engineering and Technology   (India)

^d DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Black; Caucasian; Chinese; ECG; Indian; Normal limits; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; NIGERIA; NIGERIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN; UNITED KINGDOM; ANCESTRY GROUP; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NIGERIA; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOTLAND; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 84908295348     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: 15328430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2014.08.003     Document Type: Article

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