Publication: QT interval changes in term pregnant women living at moderately high altitude
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2016-09-01
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BATMAZ, G.
AKSOY, A.
Aydin, SERDAR
Dane, B.
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Objective: This study aimed to compare the QT interval changes in women with term pregnancy living at moderately
high altitude (1890 m in Erzurum, Turkey) with those of women living at sea level (31 m in İstanbul, Turkey).
Materials and Methods: One‑hundred ten women (n = 55, for each group) with full‑term and single child pregnancies.
Two different locations in that state were selected: İstanbul, Turkey, which is at 31 m above sea level (Group 1) and
Erzurum, Turkey, at 1890 m above sea level (Group 2). Physicians from the two locations participated in the study. We
estimated QTc, QTc Max, QTc Min, QT, and QTcd intervals.
Results: Moderately high altitude group had significantly longer QT parameters (QTc, QTc Max, QTc Min, QT, and QTcd
intervals) compared with sea level group (P < 0.01, for all).
Conclusions: According to our results, QT interval changes occur in term pregnant women living moderately high altitude.
These changes may be associated with pregnancy‑related cardiovascular complications in moderately high altitude.
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BATMAZ G., AKSOY A., Aydin S., AY N., Dane B., -QT interval changes in term pregnant women living at moderately high altitude-, Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, cilt.19, ss.611-615, 2016