Different clinical features, biochemical profiles, echocardiographic and electrocardiographic findings in older and younger patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-31

  Guo, Hangyuan ^a,b   Lee, Jong Dae ^b   Ueda, Takanori ^b   Wang, Jian'an ^a   Lu, Duan ^a   He, Hong ^a   Shan, Jiang ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; DIGITALIS; LIOTHYRONINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARRHYTHMIA; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 17944371375     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.60.1.2005045     Document Type: Article

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