Association between QT interval and coronary heart disease in middle-aged and elderly men. The Zutphen Study. | Zendy

Joost Dekker | Zendy; Evert G. Schouten | Zendy; Peter Klootwijk | Zendy; J. Pool | Zendy; Daan Kromhout | Zendy

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Association between QT interval and coronary heart disease in middle-aged and elderly men. The Zutphen Study.

Author(s) -

Joost Dekker,

Evert G. Schouten,

Peter Klootwijk,

J. Pool,

Daan Kromhout

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.90.2.779

Subject(s) - medicine , qt interval , myocardial infarction , cardiology , relative risk , population , cohort study , cohort , confidence interval , sudden death , heart disease , risk factor , environmental health

Heart-rate-adjusted QT-interval (QTc) is prognostic of sudden death in myocardial infarction patients. So far, population studies have yielded conflicting results on the predictive value of QTc for coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality. Therefore, we investigated this in a longitudinal study of middle-aged and elderly men.

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