Seasonality of ventricular fibrillation at first myocardial infarction and association with viral exposure.

AIMS:To investigate seasonality and association of increased enterovirus and influenza activity in the community with ventricular fibrillation (VF) risk during first ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS:This study comprised all consecutive patients with first STEMI (n = 4,659; aged 18...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Glinge, Thomas Engstrøm, Sofie E Midgley, Michael W T Tanck, Jeppe Ekstrand Halkjær Madsen, Frants Pedersen, Mia Ravn Jacobsen, Elisabeth M Lodder, Nour R Al-Hussainy, Niels Kjær Stampe, Ramona Trebbien, Lars Køber, Thomas Gerds, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Thea K Fischer, Connie R Bezzina, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Reza Jabbari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226936