Key result
This study will prospectively examine how echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function are related to heart failure risk in elderly individuals.
Why the study?
Do noninvasive echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function associate with incident heart failure in community-dwelling elderly persons?
Do noninvasive echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function associate with incident heart failure in community-dwelling elderly persons?
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This paper describes the rationale and design for incorporating comprehensive echocardiography into visit 5 of the ARIC cohort to study heart failure risk in elderly persons.
Shah et al. (2013) studied this question. This study will prospectively examine how echocardiographic measures of cardiac structure and function are related to heart failure risk in elderly individuals.
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