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What can a Holter monitor tell me about my heart?
I'm 42 and a woman. I need to have a Holter monitor hooked up to me as part of a clinical trial. What will it tell doctors about my heart?
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Holter monitor is a beat to beat evaluation of your heart beat over a period of time typically 24 or 48 hours. Typically you get the total heart rate, average heart rate, maximum and minimum heart rate and any abnormalities in the rhythm and any extra beats either from the upper or lower chamber of the heart. In summary it is a snapshot of all heart activities over certain period of time