Clinical and demographic determinants of heart rate variability in patients post myocardial infarction: Insights from the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial (CAST)

Background: Clinical and demographic determinants of heart rate variability (HRV), an almost universal predictor of increased mortality, have not been systematically investigated in patients post myocardial infarction (MI).

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