Heart Rate Variability and Sudden Cardiac Death

Completed

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases, Coronary Disease, Heart Diseases, Myocardial Infarction, Death, Sudden, Cardiac, Ventricular Arrhythmia

In brief

To evaluate the ability of heart rate variability to identify myocardial infarction patients at high risk of dying, particularly from sudden cardiac death.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00005235

Run by

Columbia University

People needed

715

Starts

1988-12-01

Expected to finish

1993-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-12-24

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• -Patients that have had myocardial infarction within 2 weeks - still in hospital and sedentary except for short walks in hospital corridors

You may not qualify if…

• -Inadequate 24-hour ECG recordings

Where it is running

• Columbia University — New York, New York, United States

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