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Age-gender influence on the rate-corrected QT interval and the QT-heart rate relation in families with genotypically characterized long QT syndrome.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - 1 Jan 1997
Lehmann M H, Timothy K W, Frankovich D, Fromm B S, Keating M, Locati E H, Taggart R T, Towbin J A, Moss A J, Schwartz P J, Vincent G M
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OBJECTIVES: We sought to analyze age-gender differences in the rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval in the presence of a QT-prolonging gene. BACKGROUND: Compared with men, women exhibit a longer QTc interval and an increased propensity toward torsade de pointes. In normal subjects, the QTc gender dif...
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