Association of Left Ventricular Mass with All-Cause Mortality, Myocardial Infarction and Stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bouzas Mosquera, Alberto ^a,b   Broullón, Francisco J ^a   Álvarez García, Nemesio ^a   Peteiro, Jesús ^a,b   Mosquera, Víctor X ^a   Castro Beiras, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866883247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045570     Document Type: Article

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