Does adjustment for extracardiac factors improve the test performance of ECG in diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy in a Black African population?
Adjusting for extracardiac factors like age, sex, and body habitus improves the diagnostic accuracy of ECG for detecting left ventricular hypertrophy in Black African populations.
The test performance of the ECG in diagnosing LVH is low in this Black African population, due to extracardiac factors such as age, sex, body habitus, and cardiac factors such as LVH severity and geometry. However, this performance is improved after adjustment for extracardiac factors.
Jingi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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