Abstract
The low reproducibility of the QT dispersion (QTD) method is a major reason why it is not used in clinics. The purpose of this study was to develop QT dispersion parameters with better reproducibility and identification of patients with a high risk of ventricular arrhythmia or death. Three institutions using different methods for measuring QT intervals provided QT databases, which included more than 3500 twelve-lead surface ECGs. The data represented low and high risk subjects from the following groups: the normal population EpiSet (survivors vs dead from cardiovascular causes), acute myocardial infarction patients AmiSet (survivors vs dead) and remote myocardial infarction patients ArrSet (with vs without a history of ventricular arrhythmia). The EpiSet, AmiSet, and the ArrSet contributed with N = 122, 0, and 110 ECGs for reproducibility analysis, and 3244, 446, and 100 ECGs for the analysis of prognostic accuracy. The prognostic accuracy was measured as the area under the Receiver Operator Curve. The QT intervals were divided into six QT pairs; the longest pair consisted of the longest and the shortest QT intervals etc. The QT dispersion trend (QTDT) was defined as the slope of the linear regression of the N longest QT pairs ...Continue Reading
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