ABSTRACT
Objective:To analyze deceleration capacity of heart rate (DC) in patients with ventricular arrhythmia , and explore its predictive value for ventricular arrhythmia .Methods :Dynamic electrocardiogram (DCG) data of outpatients and inpatients ,who were treated in our hospital from Jan 2012 to Jul 2015 ,were retrospectively ana‐lyzed .A total of 41 rehabilitation patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) directly detected by DCG were treated as VT group ,another 37 cases with similar general data and non‐tachycardia were enrolled as non‐tachycardia group in the same period .DCG was used to measure and calculate DC in all subjects , DC indexes were compared between two groups .Results:DC<4.5 ms was regarded as abnormal and DC<2.5 ms was regarded as significantly abnor‐mal .Compared with non-tachycardia group ,DC significantly reduced [ (8.72 ± 1.78) ms vs .(4.01 ± 1.90) ms] , P<0.01 ;there were significant rise in abnormal DC rate (5.41% vs .51.22% ) and significant abnormal DC rate (0 vs .29.27% ) in VT group , P<0.01 both .Conclusion:Detection rate of abnormal DC is high in VT patients .DC measurement is helpful for predicting ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death .