The overall number of respondents was 517. Of about 608 attendees of Internal Medicine conferences, 371 (61%) responded, and of about 208 attendees of psychiatry conferences, 146 (67%) responded.

The maternal heart significantly adapts to the circulatory needs of pregnancy, but the effect of pregnancy on ventricular repolarization is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to quantify ...

Similarly, subjects with an increased QT dispersion (QTd), which may mirror discrepant repolarization characteristics of different areas of the heart, show an increased cardiovascular mortality and ...

Results to be Included in BYDUREON™ New Drug Application Resubmission in the Third Quarter of 2011 SAN DIEGO & INDIANAPOLIS & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

The QT interval on an electrocardiogram signifies the time required for the heart to repolarize after depolarization. It has long been appreciated that a long QT interval predisposes patients to ...

"The net increase in QT interval caused by grapefruit among healthy volunteers was small, but in the range that, if grapefruit juice were a new drug in development, the results of the present study ...

Having access to less intrusive QT interval measurement with flexibility around the time and place of the appointment is important 3.1 Psychiatric service user experts explained that it is important ...

Objective: To assess health care practitioners' ability to correctly measure the QT interval, and to identify factors and medications that may increase the risk of QT-interval prolongation and ...

Results to be Included in BYDUREON™ New Drug Application Resubmission in the Third Quarter of 2011 SAN DIEGO & INDIANAPOLIS & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

Research confirms that grapefruit juice prolongs the QT interval; this finding has implications for patients taking medications that prolong the QT interval and may have implications for patients with ...