Left atrial size in 164 hypertensive patients: An echocardiographic and ambulatory blood pressure study

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 603-607

  Tedesco, Michele A ^a   Di Salvo, Giovanni ^a   Ratti, Gennaro ^a   Natale, Francesco ^a   Iarussi, Diana ^a   Iacono, Aldo ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Echocardiography; Hypertension; Left atrial enlargement; Left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CARDIOMEGALY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 0034860480     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960240907     Document Type: Article

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