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Gender differences in cardiac left ventricular mass and function: Clinical and experimental observations

Eduardo Manuel Escudero1, Alejandro Orlowski, Alejandro Díaz

  • 1Centro de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, La Plata, Argentina. emescu@gmail.com.

Cardiology Journal
|August 31, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Aging impacts left ventricular mass (LVM) and function (LVF) differently in males and females. While male rats show increased LVM with aging, human men exhibit greater LVM but reduced LVF compared to women.

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