The sharing of scientific data reinforces open scientific inquiry; it encourages diversity of analysis and opinion while promoting new research and facilitating the education of next generations of scientists. In this article, we present an initiative for the development of a repository containing continuous electrocardiographic information and their associated clinical information. This inform...

The forward problem of electrocardiography involves computing the potentials and currents within the body from a known electrical potential distribution or activation sequence in the heart. This paper details an efficient computational model of the human torso for use in electrocardiographic problems. The model uses a combined finite element/boundary element method which uses bicubic Hermite ba...

A previous study in a car assembly plant showed that production-line workers had a lower incidence rate of heart attacks than executive staff. In the present study some major coronary risk factors and 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiograms were investigated in two age-matched samples of 30 middle-aged men drawn from these occupations. Men with a known history of heart disease were excluded. Comp...