The associations of body size and body composition with left ventricular mass: Impacts for indexation in adults

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 451-457

  Hense, Hans Werner ^a   Gneiting, Birgit ^b   Muscholl, Michael ^c   Broeckel, Ulrich ^c   Kuch, Bernhard ^a   Doering, Angela ^b   Riegger, Günter A J ^c   Schunkert, Heribert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY FAT; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032145715     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00240-X     Document Type: Article

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