Left Ventricular Mass and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease in an Elderly Cohort

摘要: Objective To examine the association of echocardiographically determined left ventricular mass with incidence coronary heart disease in an elderly cohort. Design Cohort study a follow-up period 4 years. Setting Population-based. Subjects Elderly original volunteer subjects Framingham Heart Study who were free clinically apparent disease. This group included 406 men (mean age, 68 years: range, 60 to 90) and 735 women 69 59 90). Measurements main results During years follow-up, events occurred 37 33 women. Baseline was associated both sexes (P less than 0.01). After adjusting for systolic blood pressure, smoking, ratio total/high density lipoprotein cholesterol, relative risk event, per 50 g/m increment mass/height, 1.67 (95% CI, 1.24 2.23) 1.60 1.10 2.32). Conclusions Echocardiographic assessment offers prognostic information beyond that provided by traditional factors, which can improve our ability identify individuals at high These findings may have widespread implications regarding applications echocardiography clinical practice.