Myocardial contraction fraction, Diabetes and Heart Failure: The Multi Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
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- abstract
- Objective: We sought to investigate differences in myocardial contraction fraction (MCF) by glucose metabolism status and determine whether reduced MCF is predictive of incident heart failure (HF) in the Multi-Ethnic study of Atherosclerosis, a cohort study of 6814 adults aged 45-84 without prior cardiovascular (CV) disease.
- subject
- Diabetes
- Diabetic cardiomyopathy
- Ejection Fraction
- Heart Failure
- Impaired Fasting Glucose
- Myocardial Contraction Fraction
- contributor
- Bertoni, Alain G (committee chair)
- Wagenknecht, Lynne E (committee member)
- Burke, Gregory L (committee member)
- Chen, Haiying (committee member)
- date
- 2012-09-05T08:35:17Z (accessioned)
- 2012-09-05T08:35:17Z (available)
- 2012 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/37433 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Myocardial contraction fraction, Diabetes and Heart Failure: The Multi Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
- type
- Thesis