Atrial dilation and altered function are mediated by age and diastolic function but not before the eighth decade

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 234-242

  Boyd, Anita C ^a,b,c   Schiller, Nelson B ^d   Leung, Dominic ^a,b   Ross, David L ^c   Thomas, Liza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Westmead Hospitals   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; DIASTOLE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952716655     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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