ArticleJournal of electrocardiology
Reference ranges of PR duration and P-wave indices in individuals free of cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
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- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2021 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2021Article
- Electrocardiographic left atrial abnormality in patients presenting with ischemic stroke.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2020Article
- P wave indices, heart rate variability and anthropometry in a healthy South Asian population.PloS one · 2019Article
- P Wave Indices-Advancing Our Understanding of Atrial Fibrillation-Related Cardiovascular Outcomes.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2019Review
- Atrial Cardiopathy and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke in the CHS (Cardiovascular Health Study).Stroke · 2018Article
- Association between sleep disordered breathing and electrocardiographic markers of atrial abnormalities: the MESA study.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2017Article
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- P-wave morphology and the risk of incident ischemic stroke in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Stroke · 2014Article
- P-wave morphology is unaffected by atrial size: a study in healthy athletes.Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc · 2014Article
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Abstract
In this brief report, we provide normal reference ranges for PR duration [unadjusted and heart rate adjusted] and P-wave indices [duration, amplitude and terminal force in V1] in individuals free of cardiovascular disease and its risk factors. We used automatically processed digital ECG data from 1252 US participants [mean age 59 (± 10) years, 738 women, 588 whites, 207 African-Americans, 217 Hispanics, 240 Chinese] from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA]. In multivariable adjusted linear regression models with PR and each P-wave variable as a separate outcome, significant age, sex and race differences in these markers were observed. Subsequently, we report reference ranges for abnormal [2nd and 98th percentiles], borderline abnormal [5th and 95th percentiles] and mean [SD] values of PR and P-wave indices stratified by age [middle age (45-64 years) and seniors (65-84 years)], sex [men and women] and race [whites, African Americans, Hispanics and Chinese].
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