Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 8 , Pages 816-822 , August 2010

Low Cardiovascular Risk Is Associated with Favorable Left Ventricular Mass, Left Ventricular Relative Wall Thickness, and Left Atrial Size: The CARDIA Study

  • Samuel S. Gidding, MD

      Affiliations

    • Nemours Cardiac Center, A. I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Samuel S. Gidding, MD, Nemours Cardiac Center, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19803.
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  • Mercedes R. Carnethon, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Stephen Daniels, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
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  • Kiang Liu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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  • David R. Jacobs Jr., PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • Steve Sidney, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Kaiser-Permanente Division of Research, Oakland California
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  • Julius Gardin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Hackensack University Hospital, Hackensack, New Jersey

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 Work on this report was supported (or partially supported) by contracts University of Alabama at Birmingham, Coordinating Center, N01-HC-95095 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Field Center, N01-HC-48047 University of Minnesota, Field Center, N01-HC-48048 Northwestern University, Field Center, N01-HC-48049 Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, and N01-HC-48050 University of California, Irvine, Echocardiography Reading Center.

PII: S0894-7317(10)00460-8

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.05.023

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 8 , Pages 816-822 , August 2010

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