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Sex-specific predictors of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in untreated hypertension

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the sex-specific differences in left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) predictors. We hypothesized that arterial stiffness (AS) may play a different role in the etiology of LV DD in hypertensive men and postmenopausal women, acting independently from other...

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Autores principales: Jaroch, Joanna, Vriz, Olga, Bociąga, Zbigniew, Driussi, Caterina, Łoboz-Rudnicka, Maria, Rzyczkowska, Barbara, Łoboz-Grudzień, Krystyna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822022
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S114337