Predictors of stroke in patients paced for sick sinus syndrome
Arnold J. Greenspon, MD, FACC*,*,
Robert G. Hart, MD ,
David Dawson, MD ,
Anne S. Hellkamp, MS ,
Marc Silver, MD, FACC||,
Greg C. Flaker, MD, FACC¶,
Eleanor Schron, MS, RN#,
Lee Goldman, MD, FACC**,
Kerry L. Lee, PhD ,
Gervasio A. Lamas, MD, FACC MOST Study Investigators
* Division of Cardiology, Jefferson Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
|| Gastonia Memorial Hospital, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
¶ University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
# Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
** University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
 Mount Sinai Medical Center and the University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami Beach, Florida, USA

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Figure 1 Stroke rate in patients paced for sinus node dysfunction. Kaplan-Meier plot of the stroke rate in patients receiving either ventricular rate-modulated pacing (VVIR) (dotted line) or dual-chamber rate-modulated pacing (DDDR) (solid line). CI = confidence interval.
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