Key result
Age analysis yields no quantitative results regarding its association with LV mass in healthy individuals.
Why the study?
Does left ventricular mass increase with age in a healthy population in the absence of other risk factors?
Observational
Does left ventricular mass increase with age in a healthy population in the absence of other risk factors?
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Left ventricular (LV) mass assessed by echocardiography has been observed to increase monotonically with age in a recent Framingham Study report 1 and in other studies. Blood pressure and body mass are 2 of the most important risk factors for increased LV mass; both tend to increase with age. The question arises whether increased LV mass is an inevitable consequence of aging, or whether LV mass remains stable with age in the absence of other risk factors. We analyzed the relation of LV mass to age in a healthy subset of Framingham Study participants who were studied routinely by echocardiography.
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Dannenberg et al. (1989) conducted an observational in Healthy. Age was evaluated on Left ventricular mass. The abstract describes an analysis of the relationship between age and left ventricular mass in a healthy population, but reports no quantitative results.
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