Relation of various degrees of body mass index in patients with systemic hypertension to left ventricular mass, cardiac output, and peripheral resistance (The Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network Study)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1163-1168

  Palmieri, Vittorio ^a   De Simone, Giovanni ^a   Arnett, Donna K ^b   Bella, Jonathan N ^a   Kitzman, Dalane W ^c   Oberman, Albert ^d   Hopkins, Paul N ^e   Province, Michael A ^f   Devereux, Richard B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035889569     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)02054-9     Document Type: Article

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