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- Andersson, Staffan, et al.
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Twenty-four-hour electrocardiography in a healthy elderly population
- 1988
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Ingår i: Gerontology. - : S. Karger AG. - 0304-324X .- 1423-0003. ; 34:3, s. 139-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Twenty-four hour electrocardiography was performed in fifteen 73-year-old and seventeen 82-year-old subjects without known cardiovascular disease. They were selected from a representative population of elderly people. All subjects showed supraventricular premature beats. Supraventricular tachycardia was seen in 63%. Eighty-four percent showed ventricular premature beats (VPBs), and more than two VPB configuration types were seen in 23% of the subjects. Episodes of intermittent atrial flutter and fibrillation, higher-degree atrioventricular blocks and ventricular tachycardia were absent or rare.
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