Both leg blood flow and the femoral blood flow pattern are related to left ventricular mass in elderly men

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-276

  Lind, Lars ^a   Andersson, Per Erik ^a   Andrén, Bertil ^a   Lithell, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; LEG; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033034318     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1999.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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