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Rationale and Design of a Multicenter Echocardiographic Study to Assess the Relationship Between Cardiac Structure and Function and Heart Failure Risk in a Biracial Cohort of Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Rationale and Design of a Multicenter Echocardiographic Study to Assess the Relationship Between... Ventricular Structure and Function Rationale and Design of a Multicenter Echocardiographic Study to Assess the Relationship Between Cardiac Structure and Function and Heart Failure Risk in a Biracial Cohort of Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Amil M. Shah, MD, MPH; Susan Cheng, MD; Hicham Skali, MD; Justina Wu, MD, PhD; Judy R. Mangion, MD; Dalane Kitzman, MD; Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD; Suma Konety, MD; Kenneth R. Butler, PhD; Ervin R. Fox, MD, MPH; Nakela Cook, MD, MPH; Hanyu Ni, MD; Josef Coresh, MD, PhD; Thomas H. Mosley, PhD; Gerardo Heiss, MD, PhD; Aaron R. Folsom, MD; Scott D. Solomon, MD Background—Heart failure is an important public health concern, particularly among persons >65 years of age. Women and blacks are critically understudied populations that carry a sizeable portion of the heart failure burden. Limited normative and prognostic data exist on measures of cardiac structure, diastolic function, and novel measures of systolic deformation in older adults living in the community. Methods and Results—The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study is a large, predominantly biracial, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–sponsored epidemiological cohort study. Between 2011 and 2013, ≈6000 surviving participants, now in their seventh to ninth decade http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging Wolters Kluwer Health

Rationale and Design of a Multicenter Echocardiographic Study to Assess the Relationship Between Cardiac Structure and Function and Heart Failure Risk in a Biracial Cohort of Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

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1941-9651
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1942-0080
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10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000736
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Ventricular Structure and Function Rationale and Design of a Multicenter Echocardiographic Study to Assess the Relationship Between Cardiac Structure and Function and Heart Failure Risk in a Biracial Cohort of Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study Amil M. Shah, MD, MPH; Susan Cheng, MD; Hicham Skali, MD; Justina Wu, MD, PhD; Judy R. Mangion, MD; Dalane Kitzman, MD; Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD; Suma Konety, MD; Kenneth R. Butler, PhD; Ervin R. Fox, MD, MPH; Nakela Cook, MD, MPH; Hanyu Ni, MD; Josef Coresh, MD, PhD; Thomas H. Mosley, PhD; Gerardo Heiss, MD, PhD; Aaron R. Folsom, MD; Scott D. Solomon, MD Background—Heart failure is an important public health concern, particularly among persons >65 years of age. Women and blacks are critically understudied populations that carry a sizeable portion of the heart failure burden. Limited normative and prognostic data exist on measures of cardiac structure, diastolic function, and novel measures of systolic deformation in older adults living in the community. Methods and Results—The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study is a large, predominantly biracial, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–sponsored epidemiological cohort study. Between 2011 and 2013, ≈6000 surviving participants, now in their seventh to ninth decade

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Published: Jan 1, 2014

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