Electrocardiographic left atrial abnormality and silent vascular brain injury: The Northern Manhattan Study.

HYPOTHESIS:We hypothesized that P wave terminal Force in the V1 lead (PTFV1) would be associated with leukoaraiosis and subclinical infarcts, especially cortical infarcts, in a population-based, multi-ethnic cohort. METHODS:PTFV1 was collected manually from baseline electrocardiograms of clinically...

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Main Authors: Madeleine D Hunter, Yeseon Park Moon, Charles DeCarli, Jose Gutierrez, Clinton B Wright, Marco R Di Tullio, Ralph L Sacco, Hooman Kamel, Mitchell S V Elkind
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6193576?pdf=render