Tissue Doppler annular velocities, NT-proBNP and exercise capacity in healthy elderly

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 336-339

  Tretjak, Martin ^a   Kozelj, Mirta ^b  

^a General Hospital Slovenj Gradec   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 43149101837     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm170     Document Type: Letter

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