アフリカとアフリカ系カリブ海のエリートアスリートにおける右心室の生理学的適応

Abbas Zaidi1, Saqib Ghani, Rajan Sharma

  • 1St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom.

Circulation
|March 30, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

生理学的右心房 (RV) 拡張は,すべての民族のアスリートで起こります. 黒人アスリートは少し小さなRVのサイズを示しますが,民族性は最小限の影響を及ぼし,人種特有の基準値の必要性を軽減します.

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