Older women with mild hypertension have higher left ventricular mass than men after adjustment for lean body mass
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Left ventricular mass correlates with lean body mass in patients with disease-associated wasting
Dear Editor, The key feature of disease-associated malnutrition, or cachexia, is muscle wasting [1]. However, an efficient tool for the assessment of skeletal muscularity in daily practice is not available yet [2]. We recently demonstrated that left ventricular mass (LVM) as measured by echocardiography reflects nutritional status in patients with systemic sclerosis [3]. Similarly to skeletal m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)81061-0