Association of Pulsus Paradoxus With Obesity in Normal Volunteers

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1907-1909

  Lee, Joseph C ^a   Atwood, J Edwin ^a   Lee, Hyun J ^a   Cassimatis, Dimitri C ^a   Devine, Patrick J ^a   Taylor, Allen J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; OBESITY; PARADOXICAL PULSE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; TIDAL VOLUME;

BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PULSE;

EID: 33646175474     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.02.019     Document Type: Letter

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