title: Is left ventricular postsystolic long-axis shortening a marker for severity of hypertensive heart disease?
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Care, Clinical Physiology, Linköping University Hospital, SE 581 85 Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Carljohan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carlhäll
authors.forename: Bengt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wranne
authors.forename: Renaldas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jurkevicius
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology