Baroreflex sensitivity and heart-rate variability in prediction of total cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction
The LancetPublished 1 February 1998Open access
Maria Teresa La Rovere, J. Thomas Bigger, Gregory M. Marcus, Andrea Mortara, Peter J. Schwartz
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ATRAMI provides clinical evidence that after myocardial infarction the analysis of vagal reflexes has significant prognostic value independently of LVEF and of ventricular arrhythmias and that it significantly adds to the prognostic value of heart-rate variability.
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ATRAMI provides clinical evidence that after myocardial infarction the analysis of vagal reflexes has significant prognostic value independently of LVEF and of ventricular arrhythmias and that it significantly adds to the prognostic value of heart-rate variability.
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