Clinical Study
Improved Left Ventricular Diastolic Function with Exercise Training in Hypertension: A Doppler Imaging Study
Table 1
Baseline clinical, morphological, and echographic characteristics of trained patients and untrained controls.
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BMI: body mass index; HRrest: heart rate at rest; SBPrest: systolic blood pressure at rest; DBPrest: diastolic blood pressure at rest; LAVI: left atrial volume index; LVDd: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVSd: left ventricular end-systolic diameter; IVST: interventricular septum thickness in diastole; PVST: posterior ventricular septum thickness in diastole; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction. |