Population
60 healthy individuals aged 21-69 years (12 subjects per decade)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Age-matched diastolic reference values are required for accurate Doppler interpretation; leaves open prognostic relevance of these shifts.
Ageing is associated with a relative left ventricular filling shift towards late diastole, highlighting the necessity of age-matched reference groups when evaluating diastolic function by Doppler echocardiography.
Myreng et al. (1989) studied this question.
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