Comparison of m-mode echocardiographic left ventricular mass measured using digital and strip chart readings: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-5

  Arnett, Donna K ^a   Skelton, Thomas N ^b   Liebson, Philip R ^c   Benjamin, Emelia ^d   Hutchinson, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNITED STATES;

COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 3042652847     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-1-1     Document Type: Article

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