Validity of echocardiographic measurement in an epidemiological study: Project HeartBeat!

Hypertension

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 236-241

  Dai, Shifan ^a   Ayres, Nancy A ^b   Harrist, Ronald B ^a   Bricker, J Timothy ^b   Labarthe, Darwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Left ventricular mass; Observer variation; Population study; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032842746     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.34.2.236     Document Type: Article

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