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Research results from University of Dundee update understanding of heart disease
July 6th, 2008
"In coronary artery disease (CAD), a potentially reversible factor leading to cardiac death is left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). While the electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely available way to diagnose LVH, its sensitivity and specificity has never been assessed in this particular patient group where added ischaemic changes on ECG might complicate things," investigators in Scotland report. "Furthermore, there are at least 11 different ECG criteria proposed to identify LVH. We sought to determine how many cases of echocardiography (echo) LVH would be missed if all of these different ECG criteria were applied in a group of stable, treated angina patients. A total of 241...
Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2008-07-06)
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