Assessment of Association of Increased Heart Rates to Cardiovascular Events among Healthy Subjects in the United States: Analysis of a Primary Care Electronic Medical Records Database

Objective. To determine whether increases in heart rates (HRs) over time leads to adverse cardiovascular (CV) events among “healthy subjects.” Methods. This retrospective cohort study used the GE Centricity EMR database. “Healthy subjects” were defined as those with Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)...

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Main Authors: Asche, Carl V., Kim, Jaewhan, Kulkarni, Amit S., Chakravarti, Paula, Andersson, Karl-Erik
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3262494/