Twenty-four-hour electrocardiography in a healthy elderly population.
Twenty-four hour electrocardiography was performed in fifteen 73-year-old and seventeen 82-year-old subjects without known cardiovascular disease. They were selected from a representative population of elderly people. All subjects showed supraventricular premature beats. Supraventricular tachycardia was seen in 63%. Eighty-four percent showed ventricular premature beats (VPBs), and more than two VPB configuration types were seen in 23% of the subjects. Episodes of intermittent atrial flutter and fibrillation, higher-degree atrioventricular blocks and ventricular tachycardia were absent or rare.
Andersson
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Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Umeå, Sweden.
Osterlind
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Holmboe
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Windblad
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005117:Cardiac Complexes, Premature / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D013548:Sweden; D013617:Tachycardia, Supraventricular / Q000175:diagnosis; D016276:Ventricular Function