Publication date: 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.07.255

Objectives: Pathological heart rate turbulence (HRT) after ventricular premature beats 20-2000/24 h in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI) may predict higher mortality rate. Aim: To estimate the predictive power HRT in 5 year observational study in patients with CHD. Methods: 173 patients with CHD and in whom HRT was possible to record, were analyzed from 2010-2011 until 2015 with survival rate and turbulence slope (TS) and turbulence onset (TO) estimation.