Impact of Gout on Left Atrial Function: A Prospective Speckle-Tracking Echocardiographic Study - Pan, Kuo-Li; Lin, Jing-Chi; Lin, Chun-Liang; Chen, Mien-Cheng; Chang, Shih-Tai; Chung, Chang-Min; Hsu, Jen-Te (PloS one, 2014)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Arthritis; Atrial Function, Left; Blood pressure; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathy; Cardiovascular disease; Cholesterol; Diastole; Doppler effect; Echocardiography; Echocardiography, Doppler - methods; Female; Flow velocity; Gout; Gout - blood; Gout - complications; Gout - pathology; Health risk assessment; Heart; Heart failure; Humans; Hypertension; Hyperuricemia; Inflammation; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Multiple regression analysis; Patients; Prospective Studies; Regression Analysis; Rheumatism; Rheumatology; Strain rate; Systole; Uric acid; Uric Acid - blood; Ventricle; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - etiology; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - physiopathology; Taiwan