Why the study?
Is there a correlation between serious episodic cardiac arrhythmias detected by long-term ECG recording and cerebral symptoms in an elderly population?
Population
103 elderly, randomly selected persons (26 with dizziness/syncope, 77 without these symptoms)
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
22 hours
Authors
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May justify targeted ECG monitoring in symptomatic elderly; cross-sectional data leaves open causality and outcome benefit.
Is there a correlation between serious episodic cardiac arrhythmias detected by long-term ECG recording and cerebral symptoms in an elderly population?
Long-term ECG recording reveals that serious episodic arrhythmias are common in the elderly and strongly correlate with cerebral symptoms like dizziness and syncope.
Nils‐Johan Abdon (1981) studied this question.
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