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Secular trends in echocardiographic left ventricular mass in the community: the Framingham Heart Study

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  • Bernhard M Kaess National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USADeutsches Herzzentrum, Technische Universität, Munich, GermanyKlinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Philimon Gona National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martin G Larson National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USAMathematics and Statistics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Susan Cheng Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jayashree Aragam Veterans Administration Hospital, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USAHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Satish Kenchaiah Sections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Emelia J Benjamin National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USASections of Preventive Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USADepartment of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ramachandran S Vasan National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USAHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ramachandran S Vasan, Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt Wayte Ave, Suite 2, Framingham, MA 01702–5803, USA; vasan{at}bu.edu
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Kaess BM, Gona P, Larson MG, et al
Secular trends in echocardiographic left ventricular mass in the community: the Framingham Heart Study
Heart 2013;99:1693-1698.

Publication history

  • Received July 14, 2013
  • Revised August 25, 2013
  • Accepted August 27, 2013
  • First published September 16, 2013.
Online issue publication 
February 23, 2023

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