Age-and gender-specific changes in the left ventricular relaxation a doppler echocardiographic study in healthy individuals

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-46

  Okura, Hiroyuki ^a,d   Takada, Yuko ^a   Yamabe, Azusa ^a   Kubo, Tomoichiro ^a   Asawa, Koichiro ^a   Ozaki, Takeshi ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroyuki ^a   Toda, Iku ^a   Yoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^c   Yoshida, Kiyoshi ^d  

^a Bell Land General Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Diastole; Echocardiography; Ultrasonics; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGED; AGING; DIASTOLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGED; AGING; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 70350074247     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.809087     Document Type: Article

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