Left ventricular size determined by electron beam computed tomography predicts significant coronary artery disease and events

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1236-1238

  Woo, Pauline ^a   Mao, Songshao ^a   Wang, Shaojun ^a   Detrano, Robert C ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030969161     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00088-X     Document Type: Article

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