Echocardiographic Doppler evaluation of left ventricular diastolic filling in older, highly trained male endurance athletes

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-16

  Jungblut, Peter R ^a   Osborne, Jason A ^a   Quigg, Rebecca J ^a   Mcneal, Michael A ^a   Clauser, Joseph ^a   Muster, Alexander J ^a   McPherson, David D ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cardiac function; Exercise

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0033984227     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb00988.x     Document Type: Article

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