Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When combined with sotalol, the oral contraceptive drospirenone was associated with QTc prolongation, a marker ...

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inherited genetic disorder associated with QT prolongation on the electrocardiogram (ECG) and ventricular tachyarrhythmias that manifest as syncope, aborted cardiac ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of obesity on dispersion of P-wave duration and QTc interval in obese women. Forty-two obese women (Body mass index (BMI)=40±3 kg/m 2, mean age 45±9 ...

February 3, 2006-- A recent analysis of the prospective, population-based Rotterdam Study found that prolongation of the heart-rate corrected QT (QTc) interval increased the risk of sudden cardiac ...

Table 1 SNPs in cardiac ion channel genes associated with QTc length in healthy Caucasian populations KCNH2 rs1805123 (K897T) and rs3815459 were in moderate LD (D′=−0.60). Haplotype analysis confirmed ...