Volume 13, Number 1, January-February 2006

New perspectives for cardiology from chaos theory
David Kernick

Converging from a number of disciplines, non-linear systems theory and, in particular, chaos theory, offers new descriptive and prescriptive insights into physiological systems that may more accurately reflect underlying mechanisms. This paper describes the implications of these new perspectives and briefly outlines how they might be applied to the study of cardiology.

Br J Cardiol 2006;13:44-46.

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