High-normal blood pressure, functional capacity and left heart mechanics: Is there any connection?

Blood Pressure

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 315-321

  Tadic, Marijana ^a   Cuspidi, Cesare ^b   Backovic, Sladjana ^a   Kleut, Milena ^a   Ivanovic, Branislava ^c,d   Scepanovic, Radisav ^a,d   Iracek, Olinka ^a   Celic, Vera ^a,d  

^a University Clinical Hospital Center Dr Dragisa Misovic Dedinje   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Functional capacity; High normal blood pressure; Left atrium; Left ventricle; Speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; HEART ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84907044654     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2014.907978     Document Type: Article

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