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Prevalence of echocardiographic left atrial enlargement among hypertensive Nigerian subjects

BACKGROUND: Left atrial enlargement (LAE) predispose to arrhythmias, atrial thrombogenesis and cardioembolic stroke. Whether LAE constitute a major risk among African hypertensive subjects is not well described. This study was aimed to describe the epidemiologic pattern of LAE among hypertensive sub...

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Autor principal: Akintunde, Adeseye A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Makerere Medical School 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9652649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407404
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v22i2.29