Genetic influences on aortic root size in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1008-1011

  Bella, Jonathan N ^a   MacCluer, Jean W ^a   Roman, Mary J ^a   Almasy, Laura ^a   North, Kari E ^a   Welty, Thomas K ^a   Lee, Elisa T ^a   Fabsitz, Richard R ^a   Howard, Barbara V ^a   Devereux, Richard B ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Genetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA ROOT; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ARIZONA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; OKLAHOMA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH DAKOTA;

EID: 0036077709     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000017473.78775.F6     Document Type: Article

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