Background: Occupational factors are likely to contribute to increased cardiovascular disease risk among emergency medical responders (EMR). The aim of this study was to clarify whether EMR stressful Job and their prolonged exposure to work stress are ...
E. El-safty +5 more
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Methods of Assessment and Clinical Relevance of QT Dynamics [PDF]
The dependence on heart rate of the QT interval has been investigated for many years and several mathematical formulae have been proposed to describe the QT interval/heart rate (or QT interval/RR interval) relationship. While the most popular is Bazett’s
Beata Sredniawa +4 more
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Congenital Short QT Syndrome [PDF]
Long QT intervals in the ECG have long been associated with sudden cardiac death. The congenital long QT syndrome was first described in individuals with structurally normal hearts in 1957.1 Little was known about the significance of a short QT ...
Charles Antzelevitch, Johnson Francis
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Prevalence of the QT interval prolongation and its risk factors in hospitalized geriatric patients: findings of a single center cross-sectional study in Pakistan [PDF]
Background and objectives Geriatric inpatients are particularly susceptible to Torsades de Pointes (TdP) because they are usually polymorbid and often take QT-prolonging drugs.
Huma Tanveer +9 more
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Altered circadian rhythmicity of the QT interval predicts mortality in a large real-world academic hospital population [PDF]
Objective and rationale: Small studies have shown that the QT interval follows a circadian rhythm. This finding has never been confirmed in a large real-world hospital population and the clinical meaning of disrupted rhythmicity remains unknown. Methods:
Rutger R. van de Leur +6 more
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A Study on the Diurnal Variation of Ventricular Repolarization Parameters in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea [PDF]
BackgroundObstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is a common sleep breathing disorder. More and more studies have shown that OSAHS has a significant correlation with cardiovascular disease.
YANG Beibei, JIANG Junguang, SHI Jiang, ZHANG Yang
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Background: Fluoroquinolones, crucial components of treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), are associated with QT interval prolongation and risks of fatal cardiac arrhythmias. However, few studies have explored dynamic changes in the QT
Ke-Shiuan Ju +8 more
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Corrected QT interval and QT dispersion in temporal lobe epilepsy
Background Cardiac arrhythmias are expected among patients with epilepsy due to the effect of anti-epileptic drugs. Temporal lobe epilepsy also causes autonomic seizures that may affect heart rhythm.
Maram Samy Nasef +5 more
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QT is longer in drug-free patients with schizophrenia compared with age-matched healthy subjects. [PDF]
The potassium voltage-gated channel KCNH2 is a well-known gene in which mutations induce familial QT interval prolongation. KCNH2 is suggested to be a risk gene for schizophrenia.
Kumiko Fujii +9 more
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CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DRUGINDUCED INTERVALS QT AND QTC PROLONGATION
Interval QT prolongation is a predictor of the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias — polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (torsade de pointes). Long QT syndrome may be congenital or acquired.
N. V. Furman, S. S. Shmatova
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