Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research
Evaluating the patients on predefined subset of drugs and its association with QTc prolongation
Sohail Ahmed Ansari, Afreen Farooque, Aruna Dubey, Urvashi Barman Singh
JCDR. 2023: 279-284
Abstract
Introduction: Drug-induced QT prolongation is the most common cause of acquired QT prolongation. Risk factors for QTc prolongation and TdP are recorded as the following: female sex, old age, cardiac disease, electrolyte abnormalities, diabetes mellitus type II, thyroid disease, and bradycardia. Hence the present study was conducted to find out the changes in QTc readings after taking predefined subset of drugs among patients.
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