Anthropometric characteristics and tilt table test results
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Anthropometric characteristics and tilt table test results.
We appreciate the interest of Dr H. J. Koch et al. in our article and the opportunity to respond. As they state, sports medicine has become more involved in syncope and in the tilt table test. The sports medicine literature recognizes the term exerciseassociated collapse (EAC) to describe athletes who are unable to stand or walk unaided as a result of lightheadedness, feeling faint, dizziness o...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0195-668X
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.2002.3268