Electrocardiographic findings in patients >100 years of age without clinical evidence of cardiac disease.
Centenarians have a higher incidence of atrial fibrillation, left-axis deviation, premature beats, first-degree atrioventricular block, and nonspecific ST-T changes. Fewer men live long enough to reach 100 years of age, and they tend to have more significant conduction defects and old myocardial infarcts than women.
Lakkireddy
Dhanunjaya R
DR
Division of Cardiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68131, USA.
Clark
Richard A
RA
Mohiuddin
Syed M
SM
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000686:Amyloidosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male