Influence of systolic blood pressure and body mass index on left ventricular structure in healthy African-American and white young adults: the CARDIA study
Richard Lorber, MD
,
Samuel S. Gidding, MD, FACC
,
Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD*,*,
Laura A. Colangelo, MS*,
Kiang Liu, PhD* and
Julius M. Gardin, MD, FACC
* Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nemours Cardiac Center, duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Department of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA

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Figure 1 Distribution of left ventricular mass index (g/ht2.7) by race and gender.
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Figure 2 Distribution of left ventricular geometry by race and gender.
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Copyright © 2003 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.