Kiran Kaur Khush, MD
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Association of African American race with elevated pulmonary artery diastolic pressure: data from the Heart and Soul Study.
J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007; (11): 1307-13
Whether increased severity of heart failure in African Americans is a result of differences in cardiac physiology is uncertain. The end-diastolic pulmonary regurgitation (EDPR) gradient is associated with abnormal cardiac physiology. We hypothesized that African American race is associated with an elevated EDPR gradient that may partially predispose African Americans to heart failure.
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