The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in
echocardiographic practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need …

Smoking is a leading global cause of disease and mortality. We established the Oxford-
GlaxoSmithKline study (Ox-GSK) to perform a genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP …

Aims To determine population-related and technical sources of variation in cardiac magnetic
resonance (CMR) reference ranges for left ventricular (LV) quantification through a formal …

Background Epidemiologic studies suggest that Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME)
patients may be at risk of worse outcomes from coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), but …

Objectives This study sought to derive age-, sex-, and ethnic-appropriate adult reference
values for left atrial (LA) and left ventricular (LV) dimensions and volumes, LV mass …

In cardiac imaging, as in any other medical discipline, understanding what is ''normal''within
a population is fundamental to define the concept of abnormal. While this is straightforward …

Background The World Alliance Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) study was
conducted to describe echocardiographic normal values in adults and to compare races and …

Objective Left atrial (LA) function is an important contributor to cardiac function in a variety of
disease states and especially with exercise. The purpose of this study was to assess the role …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to define age-, sex-, and ethnicity-specific
reference values for 3-dimensional echocardiographic (3DE) left ventricular (LV) volumes …

Objective Strain and strain rate measure local deformation of the myocardium and have
been used to evaluate phasic atrial function in various disease states. The aim of this study …