Left Ventricular Mass in Elite Olympic Weight Lifters

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1177-1180

  Lalande, Sophie ^a   Baldi, James Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT FREE MASS; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 34548657704     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.05.036     Document Type: Article

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