Pentti M Rautaharju

Summary

Affiliation: Kathleen D. Schaum and Associates
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Normal standards for QT and QT subintervals derived from a large ethnically diverse population of women aged 50 to 79 years (the Women's Health Initiative [WHI])
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 97:730-7. 2006
  2. ncbi Electrocardiographic predictors of incident congestive heart failure and all-cause mortality in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    The EPICARE Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Circulation 113:481-9. 2006
  3. ncbi Electrocardiographic abnormalities that predict coronary heart disease events and mortality in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    The EPICARE Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Circulation 113:473-80. 2006
  4. ncbi Comparison of mortality risk for electrocardiographic abnormalities in men and women with and without coronary heart disease (from the Cardiovascular Health Study)
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    the Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 97:309-15. 2006
  5. ncbi Electrocardiographic predictors of new-onset heart failure in men and in women free of coronary heart disease (from the Atherosclerosis in Communities [ARIC] Study)
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Am J Cardiol 100:1437-41. 2007
  6. ncbi Assessment of prolonged QT and JT intervals in ventricular conduction defects
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 93:1017-21. 2004
  7. ncbi Electrocardiographic estimates of action potential durations and transmural repolarization time gradients in healthy subjects and in acute coronary syndrome patients--profound differences by sex and by presence vs absence of diagnostic ST elevation
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 33327, USA
    J Electrocardiol 44:309-19. 2011
  8. ncbi A simple procedure for estimation of the spatial QRS/T angle from the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    J Electrocardiol 40:300-4. 2007
  9. ncbi The association of spatial T wave axis deviation with incident coronary events. The ARIC cohort
    Georgeta D Vaidean
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    BMC Cardiovasc Disord 5:2. 2005
  10. ncbi Comparison of the prognostic significance of the electrocardiographic QRS/T angles in predicting incident coronary heart disease and total mortality (from the atherosclerosis risk in communities study)
    Zhu Ming Zhang
    Department of Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 100:844-9. 2007

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Normal standards for QT and QT subintervals derived from a large ethnically diverse population of women aged 50 to 79 years (the Women's Health Initiative [WHI])
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 97:730-7. 2006
    ..Bazett's formula is inappropriate for testing new drugs or other applications...
  2. ncbi Electrocardiographic predictors of incident congestive heart failure and all-cause mortality in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    The EPICARE Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Circulation 113:481-9. 2006
    ..Information is limited about ECG predictors of the risk of incident congestive heart failure (CHF), particularly in women without overt manifestations of cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
  3. ncbi Electrocardiographic abnormalities that predict coronary heart disease events and mortality in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    The EPICARE Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Circulation 113:473-80. 2006
    ..Information is limited about the independent prognostic value of repolarization abnormalities in women...
  4. ncbi Comparison of mortality risk for electrocardiographic abnormalities in men and women with and without coronary heart disease (from the Cardiovascular Health Study)
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    the Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 97:309-15. 2006
    ..In conclusion, we found no evidence that the relative risk of mortality for ECG abnormalities is lower in women than in men...
  5. ncbi Electrocardiographic predictors of new-onset heart failure in men and in women free of coronary heart disease (from the Atherosclerosis in Communities [ARIC] Study)
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Am J Cardiol 100:1437-41. 2007
    ..In conclusion, several ECG abnormalities are manifestations of evolving HF in men and women considered free of coronary heart disease...
  6. ncbi Assessment of prolonged QT and JT intervals in ventricular conduction defects
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 93:1017-21. 2004
    ..Thus, detection of prolonged repolarization in VCD requires the use of the JT interval or a bivariate model for QT with RR and QRS intervals as covariates...
  7. ncbi Electrocardiographic estimates of action potential durations and transmural repolarization time gradients in healthy subjects and in acute coronary syndrome patients--profound differences by sex and by presence vs absence of diagnostic ST elevation
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 33327, USA
    J Electrocardiol 44:309-19. 2011
    ..These repolarization abnormalities are not revealed by QT alone but readily by the repolarization model...
  8. ncbi A simple procedure for estimation of the spatial QRS/T angle from the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    J Electrocardiol 40:300-4. 2007
    ..It is concluded that this simple method may provide a satisfactory substitute for QRS/T from the matrix transformation method...
  9. ncbi The association of spatial T wave axis deviation with incident coronary events. The ARIC cohort
    Georgeta D Vaidean
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
    BMC Cardiovasc Disord 5:2. 2005
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  10. ncbi Comparison of the prognostic significance of the electrocardiographic QRS/T angles in predicting incident coronary heart disease and total mortality (from the atherosclerosis risk in communities study)
    Zhu Ming Zhang
    Department of Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 100:844-9. 2007
    ..In conclusion, frontal plane QRS/T angle as an easily derived risk measure is a suitable clinical substitute for spatial QRS/T angle for risk prediction...
  11. ncbi Electrocardiographic estimates of regional action potential durations and repolarization time subintervals reveal ischemia-induced abnormalities in acute coronary syndrome not evident from global QT
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    J Electrocardiol 44:718-24. 2011
    ..These substantial differences in ischemia-induced regional manifestations of repolarization abnormalities revealed by the repolarization model were not evident from evaluation of the global QT...
  12. ncbi Heart rate, gender differences, and presence versus absence of diagnostic ST elevation as determinants of spatial QRS|T angle widening in acute coronary syndrome
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Am J Cardiol 107:1744-50. 2011
    ..In conclusion, the initial and terminal RS and ES orientations differ drastically and their deviant orientation accounts for the widened QRS|T angle in patients with ACS, differences not revealed by evaluation of the mean QRS|T angle...
  13. ncbi Mortality Risk Associated With Bundle Branch Blocks and Related Repolarization Abnormalities (from the Women's Health Initiative [WHI])
    Zhu Ming Zhang
    Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina Electronic address
    Am J Cardiol 110:1489-95. 2012
    ..In conclusion, prevalent LBBB in CVD-free women and LBBB and RBBB in women with CVD were significant predictors of CHD death. In women with LBBB, ST J-point depression in lead aVL was a strong independent predictor of CHD death...
  14. ncbi Heart rate adjustment of PR interval in middle-aged and older adults
    Elsayed Z Soliman
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center EPICARE, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
    J Electrocardiol 45:66-9. 2012
    ..The prognostic significance of the rate-adjusted PR needs to be investigated...
  15. ncbi Usefulness of ventricular premature complexes to predict coronary heart disease events and mortality (from the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities cohort)
    Mark W Massing
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Am J Cardiol 98:1609-12. 2006
    ..In conclusion, a clinical finding of VPCs on electrocardiography of even apparently healthy patients may warrant a heightened awareness of and attention to cardiovascular risk assessment and management...
  16. ncbi Long-term prognostic significance of isolated minor electrocardiographic T-wave abnormalities in middle-aged men free of clinical cardiovascular disease (The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial [MRFIT])
    Ronald J Prineas
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27104, USA
    Am J Cardiol 90:1391-5. 2002
  17. ncbi Linearly scaled, rate-invariant normal limits for QT interval: eight decades of incorrect application of power functions
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 13:1211-8. 2002
    ..Normal limits for QT traditionally are derived as mean +/- 2*SD, with rate adjustment done by dividing QT values by power functions such as RR 1/2 (proportional scaling)...
  18. ncbi Electrocardiographic QT interval prolongation and risk of primary cardiac arrest in diabetic patients
    Eric A Whitsel
    Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    Diabetes Care 28:2045-7. 2005
  19. ncbi Comparability of 12-lead ECGs derived from EASI leads with standard 12-lead ECGS in the classification of acute myocardial ischemia and old myocardial infarction
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
    J Electrocardiol 35:35-9. 2002
    ..We conclude that the EASI-derived 12-lead ECG deserves serious consideration as an alternative to the standard 12-lead ECG in emergency situations and for monitoring in acute-care setting...
  20. ncbi Why did QT dispersion die?
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    EpiCare Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Card Electrophysiol Rev 6:295-301. 2002
    ..The working hypothesis of the present paper was that the necessary although not sufficient condition for the validity of QTD concept is the association of QTD with nondipolar voltage (NDPV) in T waves of the 12-lead ECG...
  21. ncbi Otto Schmitt: an electrocardiographer with multifaceted talents
    Pentti M Rautaharju
    Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, EpiCare Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27104, USA
    J Electrocardiol 39:235-7. 2006