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P wave dispersion in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Author(s) -

Murad Atmaca,

Mustafa Yavuzkır,

Mehmet Gürkan Gürok,

Sahin Adiyaman

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

indian journal of psychiatry

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485

H-Index - 34

eISSN - 1998-3794

pISSN - 0019-5545

DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.158193

Subject(s) - anxiety , obsessive compulsive , spatial dispersion , medicine , left atrium , significant difference , psychology , electrocardiography , clinical psychology , psychiatry , audiology , physics , atrial fibrillation , optics

P wave dispersion (Pd) is defined as the difference between the maximum and the minimum P wave duration. It has recently been associated with increased anxiety levels, thereby predisposing affected individuals to fatal heart disease. Despite of evidence of this autonomous nervous system (ANS) relationship, there are no electrocardiography (ECG) studies in the patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Thus, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the Pd in OCD patients.

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