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Abstract

Heart disease causes more than one-third of all fatalities in humans. This has provoked huge efforts to understand heart physiology and pathophysiology. After decades of research, better diagnostic and treatment options are now available. Several factors have contributed to an enormous rise in life expectancy in the last 20 years. One such factor is certainly the progress in cardiology, in diagnosing, risk stratifying, and treating heart disease.

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Notes

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    Note that in the abstract SDANN is described incorrectly as “The standard deviation of five consecutive RR intervals (SDANN),” but in the article correctly as “SDANN – Standard deviation of 5-minute mean RR intervals”

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