Usefulness of subnormal midwall fractional shortening in predicting left ventricular exercise dysfunction in asymptomatic patients with systemic hypertension

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1070-1074

  Schussheim, Adam E ^a   Devereux, Richard B ^a   De Simone, Giovanni ^a   Borer, Jeffrey S ^a   Herold, Edmund McM ^a   Laragh, John H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030923647     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00049-0     Document Type: Article

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