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Echocardiographic partition values and prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive Nigerians

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a well known independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. It has been shown that combination of left ventricular mass (LVM) and relative wall thickness (RWT) can be used to identify different forms of left ventricular (LV) geometry. Prospective...

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Autores principales: Adebiyi, Adewole A, Ogah, Okechukwu S, Aje, Akinyemi, Ojji, Dike B, Adebayo, Adedeji K, Oladapo, Olulola O, Falase, Ayodele O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16939651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-6-10