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SUBMITTER: Mosley JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975107 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mosley Jonathan D JD Levinson Rebecca T RT Brittain Evan L EL Gupta Deepak K DK Farber-Eger Eric E Shaffer Christian M CM Denny Josh C JC Roden Dan M DM Wells Quinn S QS
The American journal of cardiology 20180313 12
Diastolic dysfunction (DD), an abnormality in cardiac left ventricular (LV) chamber compliance, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Although DD has been extensively studied in older populations, co-morbidity patterns are less well characterized in middle-aged subjects. We screened 156,434 subjects with transthoracic echocardiogram reports available through Vanderbilt's electronic heath record and identified 6,612 subjects 40 to 55 years old with an LV ejection fraction ≥50% and ...[more]