Aortic stiffness is strikingly increased with age ≥50 years in clinically normal individuals and preclinical patients with cardiovascular risk factors: Assessment by the new technique of 2D strain echocardiography

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-359

  Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Miyoshi, Hirokazu ^a   Mizuguchi, Yukio ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Nagase, Norio ^a   Oki, Takashi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Aortic stiffness; Two dimensional strain echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL STRAIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AORTA; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79955033379     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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