Article
Depressive symptoms in the congenital long QT syndrome.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2009
Hintsa Taina, Keltikangas-Järvinen Liisa, Puttonen Sampsa, Ravaja Niklas, Toivonen Lauri, Kontula Kimmo, Swan Heikki
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A proportion of patients with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) experience potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. AIM: To examine whether depressive symptoms are related to arrhythmic events among symptomatic and asymptomatic LQTS patients, and syncope events among their relatives not carrying the family's LQTS-causing mutation. METHODS: The participants were 569 molecularly defined LQTS...
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