Influence of heart rate correction formulas on QTc interval stability

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ANDRŠOVÁ Irena HNATKOVA Katerina ŠIŠÁKOVÁ Martina TOMAN Ondřej SMETANA Peter HUSTER Katharina M. BARTHEL Petra NOVOTNÝ Tomáš SCHMIDT Georg MALÍK Marek

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Scientific Reports
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Faculty of Medicine

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Web https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93774-9
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93774-9
Keywords heart rate correction formulas; QTc interval stability
Description Monitoring of QTc interval is mandated in different clinical conditions. Nevertheless, intra-subject variability of QTc intervals reduces the clinical utility of QTc monitoring strategies. Since this variability is partly related to QT heart rate correction, 10 different heart rate corrections (Bazett, Fridericia, Dmitrienko, Framingham, Schlamowitz, Hodges, Ashman, Rautaharju, Sarma, and Rabkin) were applied to 452,440 ECG measurements made in 539 healthy volunteers (259 females, mean age 33.3 +/- 8.4 years). For each correction formula, the short term (5-min time-points) and long-term (day-time hours) variability of rate corrected QT values (QTc) was investigated together with the comparisons of the QTc values with individually corrected QTcI values obtained by subject-specific modelling of the QT/RR relationship and hysteresis. The results showed that (a) both in terms of short-term and long-term QTc variability, Bazett correction led to QTc values that were more variable than the results of other corrections (p<0.00001 for all), (b) the QTc variability by Fridericia and Framingham corrections were not systematically different from each other but were lower than the results of other corrections (p-value between 0.033 and<0.00001), and (c) on average, Bazett QTc values departed from QTcI intervals more than the QTc values of other corrections. The study concludes that (a) previous suggestions that Bazett correction should no longer be used in clinical practice are fully justified, (b) replacing Bazett correction with Fridericia and/or Framingham corrections would improve clinical QTc monitoring, (c) heart rate stability is needed for valid QTc assessment, and (d) development of further QTc corrections for day-to-day use is not warranted.
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