Association of early repolarization pattern on ECG with risk of cardiac and all-cause mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study (MONICA/KORA).

BACKGROUND: Early repolarization pattern (ERP) on electrocardiogram was associated with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac arrest in a case-control study and with cardiovascular mortality in a Finnish community-based sample. We sought to determine ERP prevalence and its associati...

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Main Authors: Moritz F Sinner, Wibke Reinhard, Martina Müller, Britt-Maria Beckmann, Eimo Martens, Siegfried Perz, Arne Pfeufer, Janina Winogradow, Klaus Stark, Christa Meisinger, H-Erich Wichmann, Annette Peters, Günter A J Riegger, Gerhard Steinbeck, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Kääb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2910598?pdf=render