Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias independent of left ventricular function

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 90%
• Cardiac Arrhythmias 86%
• Ventricular Tachycardia 66%
• Stroke Volume 42%
• Ambulatory Electrocardiography 19%
• Mortality 11%
• Systolic Heart Failure 10%
• Sudden Cardiac Death 8%
• Lung 8%
• Chronic Renal Insufficiency 7%
• Echocardiography 6%
• Coronary Artery Disease 6%
• Diabetes Mellitus 6%
• Comorbidity 6%
• Body Mass Index 5%
• Multivariate Analysis 5%
• Retrospective Studies 5%
• Hypertension 5%
• Demography 5%
• Neoplasms 2%