Twenty-Four-Hour Electrocardiographic Study in the Active Very Elderly

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Cardiac rhythm was studied by means of 24-hour ambulatory ECG in 18 active outpatients, mean age 92.3 ± 2.3 years. The main characteristics observed were the following: a broad dynamic heart rate range; relatively rare atrial fibrillation (5.5%); incidence of simple atrial and ventricular premature beats, complex atrial premature beats or supraventricular tachycardia in all subjects, while ventricular tachycardia and R-on-T phenomenon were present in only one subject. The ‘arrhythmic normality’ parameters in the very elderly probably need to be revised, and only severe ventricular arrhythmias appear to be an abnormal phenomenon.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1987

Publication date (Print): 1987

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2008

Volume: 74

Issue: 2

Pages: 159-166

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Department of Cardiology and POSAM, Hospital of Desenzano-Lonato, Desenzano, Italy

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Publisher ID: 174192 Other ID: Cardiology 1987;74:159–166

DOI: 10.1159/000174192

PubMed ID: 3568057

SO-VID: 38c8443b-7616-438c-ace8-21d080d28247

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Twenty-Four-Hour Electrocardiographic Study in the Active Very Elderly

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