Left ventricular structure and function in sedentary and physically active subjects with left ventricular hypertrophy (the LIFE Study).
Patients with left ventricular hypertrophy had higher heart rates, left ventricular mass, and left atrial size independent of gender, blood pressure, or body mass index than physically active patients.
Boman
Kurt
K
Department of Medicine, Skellefteå County Hospital and Umeå University, 93186 Skellefteå, Sweden. kurt.boman@vll.se
Olofsson
Mona
M
Dahlöf
Björn
B
Gerdts
Eva
E
Nieminen
Markku S
MS
Papademetriou
Vasilios
V
Wachtell
Kristian
K
Devereux
Richard B
RB
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004452:Echocardiography; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left