Size matters! Impact of age, sex, height, and weight on the normal heart size

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1073-1079

  Pfaffenberger, Stefan ^a   Bartko, Philipp ^a   Graf, Alexandra ^a   Pernicka, Elisabeth ^a   Babayev, Jamil ^a   Lolic, Emina ^a   Bonderman, Diana ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^b   Maurer, Gerald ^a   Mascherbauer, Julia ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Body size; Echocardiography; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE END DIASTOLIC DIAMETER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE END DIASTOLIC DIAMETER; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE; BODY SIZE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892163599     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000690     Document Type: Article

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