The heart of the senior oarsman: An echocardiographic evaluation

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1045-1048

  Gustafsson, Finn ^a,b   Ali, Samir ^a   Hanel, Birgitte ^a   Toft, Jens C ^a   Secher, Niels H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ROWING; WORK CAPACITY

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE;

EID: 0029831164     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199608000-00015     Document Type: Article

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