Gender specific differences in left ventricular adaptation to obesity and hypertension

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 685-691

  Kuch, B ^a,d   Muscholl, M ^b   Luchner, A ^b   Doring A ^c   Riegger, G A J ^b   Schunkert, H ^b   Hense, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Zentralklinikum Augsburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Gender differences; Hypertension; Left ventricular geometry; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 0031731204     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1000689     Document Type: Article

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