Aortic root remodeling over the adult life course: Longitudinal data from the framingham heart study

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 884-890

  Lam, Carolyn S P ^a,c   Xanthakis, Vanessa ^b   Sullivan, Lisa M ^b   Lieb, Wolfgang ^a   Aragam, Jayashri ^d   Redfield, Margaret M ^c   Mitchell, Gary F ^e   Benjamin, Emelia J ^a,f   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^a,f  

^a FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING INC   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aorta; echocardiography; epidemiology; prevention; remodeling; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AORTA ROOT; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; AORTIC DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; SEX RATIO; THORACIC AORTA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956373874     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.937839     Document Type: Article

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