Relation of duration of morbid obesity to left ventricular mass, systolic function, and diastolic filling, and effect of weight loss

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 1995, Pages 1194-1197

  Alpert, Martin A ^a,b   Lambert, Charles R ^a,b   Panayiotou, Hercules ^a,b   Terry, Boyd E ^a,b   Cohen, Michael V ^a,b   Massey, Clara V ^a,b   Hashimi, M Wail ^a,b   Mukerji, Vaskar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OBESITY, MORBID; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0028827534     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)80338-5     Document Type: Article

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