Does left ventricular mass index predict incident congestive heart failure in individuals with asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction?
In individuals with asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction, left ventricular mass index serves as a good discriminator for predicting incident congestive heart failure.
ALVSD is uncommon in individuals without previous clinical CVD, but it is associated with high risk for CHF, CVD, and all-cause mortality. The left ventricular mass index had good discrimination for incident CHF in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) participants with ALVSD.
Yeboah et al. (Sat,) studied this question.