Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular and myocardial contractility in middle-aged men and women: Disparate evolution above the age of 50?

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Claessens, T E ^a,c   Rietzschel, E R ^b   De Buyzere, M L ^b   De Bacquer, D ^c   De Backer, G ^c   Gillebert, T C ^b   Verdonck, P R ^a   Segers, P ^a  

^a Institute of Biomedical Technology   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elastance; Left ventricular mechanics; Population; Single beat

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33846961831     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00759.2006     Document Type: Article

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