Development of structural cardiac adaptation in basketball players

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 985-989

  Vasiliauskas, Donatas ^a   Venckå«nas, Tomas ^b   Marcinkeviäienä—, Jolanta ^a   Bartkeviäienä—, Aldona ^c  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN SPORTS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Children's Hospital of Klaipä da   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

echocardiography; exercise training; left ventricular hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASKETBALL; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASKETBALL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33845414225     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjr.0000238394.04600.fc     Document Type: Article

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