Cardiac Dysfunction Assessed by Echocardiographic Tissue Doppler Imaging Is an Independent Predictor of Mortality in the General Population
Author(s) -
Rasmus Møgelvang,
Peter Søgaard,
Sune A. Pedersen,
Niels Thue Olsen,
Jacob Louis Marott,
Peter Schnohr,
Jens P. Goetze,
Jan Skov Jensen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.108.793471
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ejection fraction , hazard ratio , diastole , doppler imaging , heart failure , population , proportional hazards model , blood pressure , confidence interval , environmental health
Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) detects left ventricular dysfunction in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction, but the prognostic significance of left ventricular dysfunction by TDI in the general population is unknown.
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