Distribution and categorization of left ventricular measurements in the general population results from the population-based gutenberg Heart Study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 604-613

  Wild, Philipp S ^a,c   Sinning, Christoph R ^a   Roth, Alexander ^a   Wilde, Sandra ^a   Schnabel, Renate B ^a   Lubos, Edith ^a   Zeller, Tanja ^a   Keller, Till ^a   Lackner, Karl J ^a   Blettner, Maria ^a   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^b   Münzel, Thomas ^a   Blankenberg, Stefan ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Left ventricular geometry; Nomograms; Population; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMOGRAMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77957356774     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.911933     Document Type: Article

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