TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cheng, Alan
AU  - Dalal, Darshan
AU  - Butcher, Barbara
AU  - Norgard, Sanaz
AU  - Zhang, Yiyi
AU  - Dickfeld, Timm
AU  - Eldadah, Zayd A
AU  - Ellenbogen, Kenneth A
AU  - Guallar, Eliseo
AU  - Tomaselli, Gordon F
PY  - 2013
DO  - 10.1161/JAHA.112.000083
SN  - 2047-9980
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7773
AB  - BACKGROUND: Primary-prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce total mortality in patients with severe left ventricular systolic function. However, only a minority of patients benefit from these devices. We designed the...
LA  - eng
PB  - American Heart Association (AHA)
KW  - Aged
KW  - Arrhythmias, Cardiac
KW  - Biomarkers
KW  - Death, Sudden, Cardiac
KW  - Electric Countershock
KW  - Electrocardiography
KW  - Female
KW  - Heart Failure
KW  - Humans
KW  - Kaplan-Meier Estimate
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Physical Examination
KW  - Predictive Value of Tests
KW  - Primary Prevention
KW  - Proportional Hazards Models
KW  - Prospective Studies
KW  - Risk Assessment
KW  - Risk Factors
KW  - Time Factors
KW  - Treatment Outcome
KW  - United States
KW  - Defibrillators, Implantable
KW  - Research Design
TI  - Prospective observational study of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in primary prevention of sudden cardiac death: study design and cohort description
TY  - journal article
ER  -