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  • Title: [Type and frequency of cardiac arrhythmias dependent on age, therapeutic aspects (author's transl)].
    Author: Wiese KH, Walter J, Schramm A, Gärtner FR, Bracharz M.
    Journal: Z Kardiol; 1981 Jul; 70(7):516-23. PubMed ID: 6168125.
    Abstract:
    Resting-, exercise and 24-h-ECG tracings of outpatients were examined for cardiac arrhythmias and were analyzed for age-dependent phenomena in the range between 20 and 100 years. Typical of higher age was especially the combination of different arrhythmias, in particular the simultaneous occurrence of slow and fast disturbances, which, of course, makes medical therapy difficult. Since ventricular arrhythmias, when classified according to Lown, have a better prognosis in the age group above 70 than between 40 and 70 years, antiarrhythmic drugs should be prescribed with extreme caution to older people and should be limited to exceptions which are detailed in this study.
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