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Correlation and stability of heart rate and ventricular ectopy variability in patients with congestive heart failure
M I Anastasiou-Nana1, L A Karagounis, J Kanakakis
1University of Athens School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, "Alexandra" Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
The stability of indexes of heart rate variability and their possible association with spontaneous variability of ventricular ectopy was examined in 13 patients with advanced congestive heart failure over 14 consecutive days of 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording. It was found that time and frequency domain measures of heart rate variability are stable over time and are inversely correlated with spontaneous variability of ventricular ectopy.
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