Histologically Measured Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Correlates with Body Height as Strongly as with Body Mass Index

Cardiac myocytes are presumed to enlarge with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). This study correlates histologically measured myocytes with lean and fat body mass. Cases of LVH without coronary heart disease and normal controls came from forensic autopsies. The cross-sectional widths of myocytes i...

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Autores principales: Tracy, Richard E., Sander, Gary E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738859
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/658958

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21738859
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/658958

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