Echocardiographic data in Hungarian top-level water polo players

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 323-328

  Pavlik, Gábor ^a   Kemény, Dénes ^b   Kneffel, Zsuzsanna ^a   Petrekanits, Máté ^a   Horváth, Patrícia ^a   Sidó, Zoltán ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^b Coach Hung Natl Water Polo Team ^*  (Hungary)

^c National Institute for Sports Medicine   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aerobic power; Athlete's heart; Cardiac hypertrophy; Top athletes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RATE; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SITTING; SPORT; TREADMILL;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SURFACE AREA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCCER; STROKE VOLUME; SWIMMING;

EID: 13444292306     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000152805.34215.97     Document Type: Article

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