Prevalence of mitral annulus calcification in African Americans: Comparison with non-hispanic whites and hispanics

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-52

  Willens, Howard J ^a,c,e   Chirinos, Julio A ^a   Gómez Marin, Orlando ^b,d   Hare, Joshua M ^a   De Marchena, Eduardo ^a  

^a Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Cardiology Section   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Echocardiography; Ethnicity; Hispanics; Mitral annulus calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL ANNULUS CALCIFICATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CALCINOSIS; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 47549112311     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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