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Increased left ventricular mass and hypertrophy are associated with increased risk for sudden death

Agha W. Haider, MD, PhD^{* ¶}, Martin G. Larson, ScD^* , Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC and Daniel Levy, MD, FACC^{* ||}

^* National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
The Section of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Division of Cardiology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^¶ Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^|| Divisions of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (12K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Incidence (unadjusted) of sudden death according to quartiles of LV mass (adjusted for height). Quartile partition values for LV mass were: Q1, <95 g/m in men and <70 g/m in women; Q2, 95 to 109 and 70 to 84; Q3, 110 to 134 and 85 to 99; Q4, 135 and 100.

View larger version (12K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Incidence (unadjusted) of sudden death in men and women according to LV hypertrophy status. The cutoff values for LV hypertrophy were 143 g/m in men and 102 g/m in women (21).