Cardiac adaptation to exercise in adolescent athletes of African ethnicity: An emergent elite athletic population

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 585-592

  Sheikh, Nabeel ^a,b   Papadakis, Michael ^a,b   Carre, Francois ^c   Kervio, Gaelle ^c   Panoulas, Vasilis F ^b   Ghani, Saqib ^a,b   Zaidi, Abbas ^a,b   Gati, Sabiha ^a,b   Rawlins, John ^a,b   Wilson, Mathew G ^d   Sharma, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d ASPETAR ORTHOPAEDIC AND SPORTS MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; BLACK PERSON; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPORT; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOLOGY PREVENTION; EVALUATION STUDY; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY; NEGRO;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPORTS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOLOGY PREVENTION; EVALUATION; EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84877709142     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091874     Document Type: Article

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