A retrospective study of postmortem heart weight in an adult Norwegian population.

The aim of the study is to get a better understanding of what a normal heart weight is and to provide updated reference tables applicable in a Caucasian population. Most previous studies are outdated and often based on other ethnic populations, and these studies are often used in reference tables in pathology textbooks. We included 692 Caucasian subjects, age 20-98years, out of 2834 autopsies performed at the Department of Pathology and Genetics, St.