Copyright © 2004 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Editorial
Sympathetic activation and sub-clinical inflammation: a new combination to identify high risk subjects
Cardiologia Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Odontoiatria, Ospedale San Paolo, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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E-mail address: federico.lombardi@unimi.it
Received 31 December 2003; accepted 13 January 2004
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This editorial refers to "Increased heart rate and reduced heart-rate variability are associated with subclinical inflammation in middle-aged and elderly subjects with no apparent heart disease"1. by Ahmad Sajadieh et al. on page 363
In the last 20 years, in spite of a larger utilization of arrhythmic risk markers, identification of sudden death victims has remained far from being satisfactory. It seems that we are unable to move out from a situation where the availability of effective devices to target ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation in selected populations only marginally affects sudden death incidence in the larger group of apparently healthy subjects.1
The extent of coronary artery disease and depression of left ventricular function have long
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