Demographics and correlates of five-year change in echocardiographic left ventricular mass in young black and white adult men and women: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study
Julius M. Gardin, MD*,*,
Debra Brunner, MA
,
Pamela J. Schreiner, PhD
,
Xiaoyuan Xie, MD
,
Cheryl L. Reid, MD*,
Karen Ruth, MS
,
Diane E. Bild, MD, PhD, MPH|| and
Samuel S. Gidding, MD¶
* Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
|| Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
¶ Nemours Cardiac Center, A. I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

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Figure 1 Mean values (and SD in parentheses) for initial left ventricular (LV) mass and five-year change in LV mass by race/gender subgroup. Black women had a significant increase (p < 0.0001).
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