Clinical impact of twenty years of research on left ventricular hypertrophy

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 3-9

  Devereux, R B ^a   Okin, P M ^a   Roman, M J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hypertension; Hypertrophy; Left ventricle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002875156     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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