Population
494 subjects aged 13 to 87 years without significant cardiac disease, based in Japan. Key exclusion…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Age-adjusted diastolic reference values may aid echo interpretation in normals; leaves open prognostic value in longitudinal or diseased cohorts.
Echocardiographic assessment in a normal population demonstrates that both left and right ventricular diastolic function deteriorate significantly with age, whereas systolic function remains preserved.
Watanabe et al. (2005) studied this question.
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