Diastolic Left Ventricular Function in Relation to Urinary and Serum Collagen Biomarkers in a General Population.

Current knowledge on the pathogenesis of diastolic heart failure predominantly rests on case-control studies involving symptomatic patients with preserved ejection fraction and relying on invasive diagnostic procedures including endomyocardial biopsy. Our objective was to gain insight in serum and u...

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Main Authors: Zhen-Yu Zhang, Susana Ravassa, Wen-Yi Yang, Thibault Petit, Martin Pejchinovski, Petra Zürbig, Begoña López, Fang-Fei Wei, Claudia Pontillo, Lutgarde Thijs, Lotte Jacobs, Arantxa González, Thomas Koeck, Christian Delles, Jens-Uwe Voigt, Peter Verhamme, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Javier Díez, Harald Mischak, Jan A Staessen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5154519?pdf=render