Left-ventricular hypertrophy in the elderly: Unreliability of ecg criteria in 477 subjects aged 65 years or more

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 429-435

  Casiglia, Edoardo ^a   Maniati, Giorgia ^b   Daskalakis, Cosmos ^b   Colangeli, Giovanna ^b   Tramontin, Paolo ^a   Ginocchio, Giuliana ^a   Spolaore, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Castelfranco Veneto Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

American Society of Echocardiography; Echocardiography; Elderly; Electrocardiography; Epidemiology; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENESCENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0029815247     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177132     Document Type: Article

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