Cardiovascular Disease (Increased Risk)
Gender Differences in Left Ventricular Mass and Geometry: The Joint Influences of Obesity and Hypertension
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 22nd, 1996
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 36th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, held March 13-16, 1996, in San Francisco, California, "Left Ventricular Mass (LVM) is a significant independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. We assessed gender differences in the relations of obesity (Ob; BMI>27.8 in men and >27.3g/m2 in women) and hypertension (Ht; SBP>159 and/or DBP>94mmHg) with LVM. We investigated selected participants of a population based study by M-mode echocardiography (293 women and 227 men; aged 52 to 67). LV-Hypertrophy (LVH) was considered when LVM indexed to height (LVMI) was >143g/m in men and...
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