Clinical Correlates and Prognostic Significance of Change in Standardized Left Ventricular Mass in a Community‐Based Cohort of African Americans

BACKGROUND: Though left ventricular mass (LVM) predicts cardiovascular events (CVD) and mortality in African Americans, limited data exists on factors contributing to change in LVM and its prognostic significance. We hypothesized that baseline blood pressure (BP) and body mass index (BMI) and change...

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Autores principales: Fox, Ervin R., Musani, Solomon K., Samdarshi, Tandaw E., Taylor, Jared K., Beard, Walter L., Sarpong, Daniel F., Xanthakis, Vanessa, McClendon, Eric E., Liebson, Philip R., Skelton, Thomas N., Butler, Kenneth R., Mosley, Thomas H., Taylor, Herman, Vasan, Ramachandran S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25655570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.114.001224

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