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Do big athletes have big hearts? Impact of extreme anthropometry upon cardiac hypertrophy in professional male athletes
AIM: Differentiating physiological cardiac hypertrophy from pathology is challenging when the athlete presents with extreme anthropometry. While upper normal limits exist for maximal left ventricular (LV) wall thickness (14 mm) and LV internal diameter in diastole (LVIDd, 65 mm), it is unknown if th...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091258 |