Asymptomatic ventricular arrhythmias and mortility risk in subjects withs with left ventricular hypertrophy
Journal of the American College of CardiologyPublished 1 October 1993
Mahesh Bikkina, Martin G. Larson, Daniel Levy
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In subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy, the presence of asymptomatic ventricular arrhythmias was associated with higher mortality, which was statistically significant after adjusting for age and gender and marginally significant after taking into account other covariates.
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In subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy, the presence of asymptomatic ventricular arrhythmias was associated with higher mortality, which was statistically significant after adjusting for age and gender and marginally significant after taking into account other covariates.
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