Aortic distensibility in patients with isolated hypercholesterolaemia, coronary artery disease, or cardiac transplant

The Lancet

Volumn 338, Issue 8762, 1991, Pages 270-273

  Dart, A M ^a   Lacombe, F ^a   Yeoh, J K ^a   Cameron, J D ^a   Jennings, G L ^a   Laufer, E ^a   Esmore, D S ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA, THORACIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025822855     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)90415-L     Document Type: Article

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