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- From: rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Electrocardiogram question
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:48:59 GMT
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- In article <72807@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (Mike - Medwid) writes:
- >noone contacted her about the results that everything's ok. Still the
- >comments on the printout appear ominous and I was hoping to receive
- >some sci.med wisdom to pass along as reassurance.
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- The original comments (sinus arrhythmia and non-specific ST-T changes)
- wouldn't count to my mind as "ominous". In young, healthy people
- getting EKG's for screening, most people with NSST-T changes would
- have nothing wrong with their hearts. Some would have cardiac disease,
- however (as would some of the people with completely normal EKG's).
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- David Rind
- rind@binoc.bih.harvard.edu
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