Correlation of Echocardiographic Findings With Cerebral Infarction in Elderly Adults
Author(s) -
Dorothea McAreavey,
JeanSébastien Vidal,
Thor Aspelund,
David S. Owens,
Timothy P. Hughes,
Melissa García,
Sigurður Sigurðsson,
Halldóra Björnsdóttir,
Tamara B. Harris,
Vilmundur Guðnason,
Lenore J. Launer,
Jonathan F. Plehn
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.110.590430
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , odds ratio , confidence interval , cerebral infarction , quartile , logistic regression , ischemia
Chronic effects of hypertension may be observed in multiple end organs. Previous reports suggest that cardiovascular morphological features can mirror cerebral infarction. In this cross-sectional analysis of elderly subjects, we investigated the relationship of a comprehensive set of echocardiographic measures with cerebral infarction detected by MRI.
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