Relationship of electrocardiographic repolarization measures to echocardiographic left ventricular mass in men with hypertension

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1951-1957

  Porthan, Kimmo ^a   Virolainen, Juha ^a   Hiltunen, Timo P ^a,b   Viitasalo, Matti ^a   Väänänen, Heikki ^c   Dabek, Juhani ^c   Hannila Handelberg, Tuula ^a,b   Toivonen, Lauri ^a   Nieminen, Markku S ^a   Kontula, Kimmo ^a,b   Oikarinen, Lasse ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b BIOMEDICUM HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Hypertension; Left ventricular hypertrophy; Repolarization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; SAMPLE SIZE; T WAVE; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; T WAVE INVERSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548440303     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328263088b     Document Type: Article

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