Left ventricular hypertrophy
- 29 July 1995
- Vol. 311 (7000), 273-274
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7000.273
Abstract
Early data from the Framingham study showed that patients with ST-T repolarisation abnormalities (“strain”) on the electrocardiogram had a sixfold increase in cardiac deaths over a 20 year follow up period.7Keywords
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