Familial predisposition of left ventricular hypertrophy

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1685-1691

  Schunkert, Heribert ^a   Bröckel, Ulrich ^a   Hengstenberg, Christian ^a   Luchner, Andreas ^a   Muscholl, Michael W ^a   Kurzidim, Klaus ^a   Kuch, Bernhard ^b   Döring, Angela ^c   Riegger, Günter A J ^a   Hense, Hans Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0033133402     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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