Gender differences in the echocardiographic characteristics of the athletic heart

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 273-278

  Pavlik, Gabor ^a   Olexó, Zsuzsanna ^a   Bánhegyi, Andrea ^a   Sido Z ^b   Frenkl, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^b National Institute for Sports Medicine   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ageing; Athletic heart; Echocardiography; Gender differences; Physical training

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPORTS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0033288509     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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