Diastolic function and its association with diabetes, hypertension and age in an outpatient population with normal stress echocardiography findings

Abstract Background Diastolic dysfunction can be caused by hypertension or diabetes mellitus, and it is also often found with increasing age. In a given patient, the cause of diastolic dysfunction is therefore not always obvious. We sought to study the interplay of these risk factors for diastolic d...

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Main Authors: Martin G. Sundqvist, Anders Sahlén, Zee Pin Ding, Martin Ugander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:Cardiovascular Ultrasound
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12947-020-00228-9

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