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Editorial
. 2017 Aug;10(8):e006819.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.117.006819.

Risk Stratification and Sudden Cardiac Death: Is It Time to Include Autonomic Variables?

Houman Khakpour  1 , Marmar Vaseghi  2
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Editorial

Risk Stratification and Sudden Cardiac Death: Is It Time to Include Autonomic Variables?

Houman Khakpour et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2017 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; autonomic nervous system; death, sudden, cardiac; defibrillators, implantable; sympathetic nervous system; ventricular fibrillation.

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