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Does the accuracy of standard ECG criteria for diagnosing LVH differ between black and white hypertensive patients?
Does the accuracy of standard ECG criteria for diagnosing LVH differ between black and white hypertensive patients?
Standard ECG criteria for LVH have poor sensitivity in all hypertensives and lower specificity in black patients, which may lead to false-positive diagnoses and overestimation of LVH prevalence in this population.
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ECG criteria may overestimate LVH prevalence in black hypertensives; leaves open need for race-specific validation in prospective studies.
Dara K. Lee (1992) studied this question.
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