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Predictive value of systolic and diastolic function for incident congestive heart failure in the elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study

Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD, FACC^*, John S. Gottdiener, MD, FACC, Lynn Shemanski, PhD, Julius Gardin, MD, FACC and Dalane Kitzman, MD, FACC^||

^* Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Division of Cardiology, St. Francis Medical Center, Roslyn, New York, USA
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
^|| The Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Unadjusted incident congestive heart failure (CHF) rates by Doppler E/A ratio. Incident CHF is highest at the extreme values of this ratio.

View larger version (79K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Interaction between quartiles of left ventricular (LV) mass index and stress-corrected midwall shortening. Highest incidence rates are in the subgroup with lowest midwall shortening and highest LV mass index. CHF = congestive heart failure.