As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...
The QT interval is the time from the beginning of the QRS complex, representing ventricular depolarization, to the end of the T wave, resulting from ventricular repolarization. The normal QT interval ...
Inappropriate chemotherapy decisions may occur through use of a commonly used formula that overestimates the risk of a cardiac adverse event, warn researchers. Many cancer drugs carry a risk of QT ...
Aim To determine factors affecting the QT interval in athletes and find an improved means of QT correction (QTc) Method Data was gathered from the CAYA (Cardiovascular Assessment in Young Athletes) ...
Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to Dr M J Ackerman, Long QT Syndrome Clinic and the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith ...
ROTTERDAM, the NETHERLANDS — A new analysis of participants in a population-based cohort study suggests at least two ECGs might be useful to stratify individuals at risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...
The QT interval on an electrocardiogram signifies the time required for the heart to repolarize after depolarization. It has long been appreciated that a long QT interval predisposes patients to ...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Consuming a large quantity of grapefruit juice has effects on the QT interval in healthy adults similar to those seen with moxifloxacin, an antibiotic with known QT-prolonging ...