Corrected QT interval in white young healthy women: should the norms be updated?

Š Kujaník1, J Petrovičová

  • 1P. J. Šafárik University Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine Košice Slovak Republic.

Acta Physiologica Hungarica
|September 24, 2013
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