Negative impact of cardiovascular risk factors on left atrial and left ventricular function related to aortic stiffness: New application of 2-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1490-1498

  Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Miyoshi, Hirokazu ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Nagase, Norio ^a   Ara, Nusrat ^b   Oki, Takashi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Left atrium; Left ventricle; Two dimensional speckle tracking imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART CYCLE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84878250064     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-1260     Document Type: Article

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