Allometric normalization of cardiac measures: Producing better, but imperfect, accuracy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1275-1278

  De Simone, Giovanni ^a   Galderisi, Maurizio ^a  

^a FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALLOMETRY; BODY BUILD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART SIZE; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOTE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION RISK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84919446205     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.10.006     Document Type: Editorial

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