BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

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Accuracy of advanced versus strictly conventional 12-lead ECG for detection and screening of coronary artery disease, left ventricular hypertrophy and left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Todd T Schlegel1*, Walter B Kulecz1, Alan H Feiveson1, E C Greco2, Jude L DePalma3, Vito Starc4, Bojan Vrtovec4, M A Rahman5, Michael W Bungo5, Matthew J Hayat6, Terry Bauch7, Reynolds Delgado8, Stafford G Warren9, Tulio Núñez-Medina10, Rubén Medina11, Diego Jugo11, Håkan Arheden12 and Olle Pahlm12

Author Affiliations

1 Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR, USA

3 Department of Engineering, Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, USA

4 Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

5 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

6 Biostatistics, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

7 Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

8 Heart and Lung Treatment and Transplant Center, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA

9 Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Thomas Memorial Hospital, Charleston, WV, USA

10 Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

11 Grupo de Ingenieria Biomedica, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

12 Department of Clinical Physiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2010, 10:28 doi:10.1186/1471-2261-10-28

Published: 16 June 2010

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(Supplemental Table 1): Performance of Selected Individual Conventional and Advanced ECG Parameters in the Training Set.

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(Supplemental Table 2): Components and Coefficients of those Primary and Secondary A-ECG Logistic Scores generated from the Training Set that Performed Best in the Test Set.

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