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Remotely monitored inactivity due to COVID-19 lockdowns

Potential hazard for heart failure patients

Ahmed Al Fagih, Mariam Al Onazi, Saleh Al Basiri, Fahmi AL-Kaf, Khalid Dagriri, Yahya Al Hebaishi, Sondos Samargandy and Lamia Al Shengeiti
Saudi Medical Journal November 2020, 41 (11) 1211-1216; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.11.25449
Ahmed Al Fagih
From the Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Al Fagih, Al Onazi, Al Basiri, AL-Kaf, Dagriri, Al Hebaishi, Al Shengeiti), and from the Interventional Cardiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Samargandy), Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mariam Al Onazi
From the Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Al Fagih, Al Onazi, Al Basiri, AL-Kaf, Dagriri, Al Hebaishi, Al Shengeiti), and from the Interventional Cardiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Samargandy), Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saleh Al Basiri
From the Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Al Fagih, Al Onazi, Al Basiri, AL-Kaf, Dagriri, Al Hebaishi, Al Shengeiti), and from the Interventional Cardiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Samargandy), Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Fahmi AL-Kaf
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Khalid Dagriri
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Yahya Al Hebaishi
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Sondos Samargandy
From the Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Al Fagih, Al Onazi, Al Basiri, AL-Kaf, Dagriri, Al Hebaishi, Al Shengeiti), and from the Interventional Cardiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Samargandy), Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Lamia Al Shengeiti
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vol. 41 no. 11 1211-1216
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.11.25449
PubMed 
33130841

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 29, 2020
  • Accepted September 21, 2020
  • Published online November 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ahmed Al Fagih, MD⇑,
  2. Mariam Al Onazi, RCES,
  3. Saleh Al Basiri, MD,
  4. Fahmi AL-Kaf, MD,
  5. Khalid Dagriri, MD,
  6. Yahya Al Hebaishi, MD,
  7. Sondos Samargandy, MD and
  8. Lamia Al Shengeiti, MD
  1. From the Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Al Fagih, Al Onazi, Al Basiri, AL-Kaf, Dagriri, Al Hebaishi, Al Shengeiti), and from the Interventional Cardiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department (Samargandy), Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ahmed Al Fagih, Consultant, Electrophysiology Division, Adult Cardiology Department, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: aafagih{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-0699
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