Clinical, laboratory, and transesophageal echocardiographic correlates of interatrial septal thickness: A population-based transesophageal echocardiographic study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-182

  Agmon, Yoram ^a   Meissner, Irene ^a   Tajik, A Jamil ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Petterson, Tanya M ^a   Christianson, Teresa J H ^a   O'Fallon, W Michael ^a   Wiebers, David O ^a   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIPOMATOUS HYPERTROPHY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; THICKNESS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTUM; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 12844271696     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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