Regression Equations for Calculation of Z Scores of Cardiac Structures in a Large Cohort of Healthy Infants, Children, and Adolescents: An Echocardiographic Study

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 922-934

  Pettersen, Michael D ^a   Du, Wei ^a   Skeens, Mary Ellen ^b   Humes, Richard A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Echocardiography; Infants; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; Z SCORE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICHIGAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 47849090403     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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