Jae-Hyeong Park, Ju-Hee Lee, Sang Yeub Lee, Jin-Oh Choi, Mi-Seung Shin, Mi-Jeong Kim, Hae Ok Jung, Jeong Rang Park, Il Suk Sohn, Hyungseop Kim, Seong-Mi Park, Nam Jin Yoo, Jung Hyun Choi, Hyung-Kwan Kim, Goo-Yeong Cho, Mi-Rae Lee, Jin-Sun Park, Chi Young Shim, Dae-Hee Kim, Dae-Hee Shin, Gil Ja Shin, Sung Hee Shin, Kye Hun Kim, Woo-Shik Kim, Seung Woo Park
BACKGROUND: It is important to understand the distribution of 2-dimensional strain values in normal population. We performed a multicenter trial to measure normal echocardiographic values in the Korean population. METHODS: This was a substudy of the Normal echOcardiogRaphic Measurements in KoreAn popuLation (NORMAL) study. Echocardiographic specialists measured frequently used echocardiographic indices in healthy people according to a standardized method at 23 different university hospitals...
December 2016: Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound