Left ventricular mass, blood pressure, and lowered cognitive performance in the Framingham offspring

Hypertension

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 439-445

  Elias, Merrill F ^a,c,e   Sullivan, Lisa M ^b   Elias, Penelope K ^c   D'Agostino Sr , Ralph B ^a   Wolf, Philip A ^d   Seshadri, Sudha ^d   Au, Rhoda ^d   Benjamin, Emelia J ^e   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^e  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Department of Preventive Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular risk factors; Cognitive performance; Left ventricular mass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33847074626     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000256361.68158.24     Document Type: Article

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