High prevalence of concentric remodeling in elderly individuals with isolated systolic hypertension from a population survey

Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 539-543

  Heesen, Wilfred F ^a   Beltman, Frank W ^b   May, Johan F ^b   Smit, Andries J ^b   De Graeff, Pieter A ^b   Havinga, Tjeerd K ^b   Schuurman, Frits H ^b   Van Der Veur, Enno ^b   Hamer, Johannes P M ^b   Meyboom De Jong, Betty ^b   Lie, Kong I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

echocardiography; hypertension, systolic; hypertrophy; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY RISK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0031033661     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.29.2.539     Document Type: Article

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