Relationship between relative aerobic power and echocardiographic characteristics in male athletes

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 901-910

  Kneffel, Zsuzsanna ^a   Horváth, Patrícia ^a   Petrekanits, Máté ^a   Németh, Hajnalka ^a   Sidó, Zoltán ^b   Pavlik, Gábor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^b Central Hospital of the Hungarian Army   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Athletes' heart; E A ratio; Echocardiography; Exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; SPORTS;

EID: 34748883736     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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