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The importance of age and obesity on the relation between diabetes and left ventricular mass

Rafael Kuperstein, MD^*, Patrick Hanly, MD, Mitra Niroumand, MD and Zion Sasson, MD, FACC^*

^* Mount Sinai Hospital,Toronto Canada
Saint Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

View larger version (29K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Interaction of age with diabetes on left ventricular mass corrected for height2.7 (LVM/Ht2.7) in the presence of obesity (n = 875).

View larger version (38K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Interaction of obesity with diabetes on left ventricular mass corrected for height2.7 (LVM/Ht2.7), excluding coronary artery disease patients (n = 818).

View larger version (33K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) according to obesity, hypertension, and diabetes (n = 875).