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- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015Re:Scaling cardiac dimensions to body size is crucial in the cardiovascular care of elite athletesShow More
Dear Professor Pressier,
Thank you for your correspondence with respect to our study (1). We have read your paper (2) with interest and congratulate you on an important paper providing further empirical evidence to support more appropriate methods of generating body size independent cardiac indices. We are delighted your data demonstrated the importance of fat free mass something we and others have proposed...
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None declared. - Published on: 23 November 2015Re:Scaling cardiac dimensions to body size is crucial in the cardiovascular care of elite athletesShow More
Dear Professor Pressier,
Many thanks for your correspondence. Your recent study is a very important contribution to this field of research.
A meta-analysis is of course dependent on the validity of the study- level metrics that are reported by authors, and this is why we inserted the very important point about allometric scaling in our discussion.
I have been confronted with this issue also whe...
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