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. 2021 Feb;27(2):295-296.
doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.08.013. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Relative bradycardia in patients with COVID-19

Gioele Capoferri  1 , Michael Osthoff  2 , Adrian Egli  3 , Marcel Stoeckle  4 , Stefano Bassetti  5
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Relative bradycardia in patients with COVID-19

Gioele Capoferri et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Feb.
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(A) Temperature–heart rate relationship in patients with COVID-19 and relative bradycardia; for each patient, two values with highest temperature ≥38.3°C and heart rate < 90 bpm measured in consecutive 24 hours are reported (red). (B) Physiologically appropriate temperature–heart rate relationship (blue); adapted from Cunha [2]. Temperature–heart rate relationship in patients with COVID-19 without relative bradycardia; for each patient two values with highest temperature are reported (green). Dotted lines represent linear regression between temperature and heart rate. COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; RB, relative bradycardia; SARS-CoV, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
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