Left ventricular diastolic function and carotid artery wall in elderly athletes and sedentary controls

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 8 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 437-442

  Galetta, Fabio ^a   Franzoni, Ferdinando ^a   Femia, Francesca R ^a   Bartolomucci, Francesco ^b   Carpi, Angelo ^a   Santoro, Gino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Cardiology Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Carotid arteries; Endurance training; Integrated backscatter; Left ventricular diastolic function; Tissue Doppler imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 5344222682     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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