BACKGROUND: Left ventricular (LV) mass varies in proportion to lean body mass (LBM) but
is usually expressed relative to height or body surface area (BSA), each of which functions …

Background Echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular (LV) mass is routinely
performed in pediatric patients with elevated cardiovascular risk. The complex relationship …

Background—Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (LVH) in children is widely defined as a left
ventricular mass index (LVMI, g/m2. 7)> 95th percentile. However, LVMI increases with …

Obesity and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) have been identified as independent risk
factors for cardiovascular events. The definition of LVH depends on the geometric algorithm …

Left ventricular (LV) mass has been established as an independent risk factor for
cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. To account for differences in body size, a …

Objectives. This study was designed to determine the most appropriate method to normalize
left ventricular mass for body size. Background. Left ventricular mass has been normalized …

Background: Measurement of left ventricular mass (LVM) is important to the diagnosis of left
ventricular hypertrophy in children with various cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this …

BACKGROUND: In older children, one of the standards for indexing left ventricular mass
(LVM) is height raised to an exponential power of 2.7. The purpose of this study was to …

With the recognition that left ventricular (LV) mass (LVM) contributed to the prediction of
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, independent of conventional risk factors, including …

Objective To determine a simplified method to identify presence of left ventricular
hypertrophy (LVH) in pediatric populations because the relationship between heart growth …