Seasonality of ventricular fibrillation at first myocardial infarction and association with viral exposure.
Charlotte GlingeThomas EngstrømSofie E MidgleyMichael W T TanckJeppe Ekstrand Halkjær MadsenFrants PedersenMia Ravn JacobsenElisabeth M LodderNour R Al-HussainyNiels Kjær StampeRamona TrebbienLars KøberThomas GerdsChristian Torp-PedersenThea K FischerConnie R BezzinaJacob Tfelt-HansenReza JabbariPublished in: PloS one (2020)
We found no clear seasonality of VF during first STEMI. Even though VF patients had experienced more generalized fatigue and flu-like symptoms within 7 days before STEMI compared with patients without VF, no relationship was found between enterovirus or influenza exposure and occurrence of VF.