Does normalizing left ventricular mass for height to allometric powers improve the identification of individuals at high risk for incident CV events compared to normalization for body surface area in populations with high obesity prevalence?
Normalizing left ventricular mass by height to allometric powers rather than body surface area better identifies prognostically adverse, obesity-related left ventricular hypertrophy.
The presence of LVH identified by LVM normalized for height to allometric powers is associated with a higher proportion of incident CV events than is LVH detected by normalization for BSA and is convenient for identification of individuals at high risk and in need of preventive intervention in populations with high prevalence of obesity. Allometric power methods allow detection of prognostically adverse, obesity-related LVH, which is unidentified using BSA.
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