T-wave morphology among medically treated patients with Anorexia Nervosa.
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest rate of mortality of any psychiatric disorder, and cardiovascular complications occur in up to 80% of patients with AN and account for up to 30% of mortality. A controversy exists as to whether patients with AN are prone to develop electrocardiographic abnormalities related to repolarization. We aim to study previously unexplored T wave morphology markers in medically-treated patients with AN. Fifty-eight patients with AN (32 with restricting type and 26 with binge-eating/purging type) and 82 healthy controls were included in the study. ECGs were conducted under strict conditions and total cosine R-to-T (TCRT) and T-wave morphology dispersion (TMD) were computed according to accepted standards for a random beat and for an averaged beat. Forty-six AN patients were hospitalized (79.3%) during the study for a mean duration of 1.5 ± 1.1 months. AN patients had comparable QTc, TCRT, mean TMD, TMDpre, TMDpost and TCRTc values to those of healthy adults. Flattened T wave occurred slightly more often among AN patients than in controls (1.57 ± 1.23 leads affected compared with 1.11 ± 0.80 leads, respectively, p = 0.017). QTc, TCRT and TMD parameters' values were unaffected by the clinical type of AN. In conclusion, weight-restored AN patients are characterized by T wave flattening, but normal other T wave morphology parameters, which seemingly reflects an overall low risk of repolarization-associated ventricular arrhythmias. Long-term follow-up studies should be conducted to evaluate the prognostic significance of these novel repolarization markers in untreated patients or early in the refeeding phase. |
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2020
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Journal of psychiatric research
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130
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Number of Pages |
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43-47
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0022-3956
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https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022-3956(20)30890-6
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DOI |
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10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.07.025
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J Psychiatr Res
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