A prediction model for left ventricular mass in patients at high cardiovascular risk.

Background: Left ventricular (LV) mass has a continuous relation with cardiovascular risk, and regression of LV mass induced by pharmacological treatment is associated with improved prognosis. Therefore, early identification of patients with a large LV mass is desired. We developed a model to predict LV mass in individual hypertensives at high cardiovascular risk.

Relation of common carotid intima-media thickness with left ventricular mass caused by shared risk factors for hypertrophy.

Background: It is unclear whether the relationship between common carotid intima-media thickness (cCIMT) and left ventricular mass (LVM) is due to shared risk factors for atherosclerosis or for hypertrophy.

Methods: In 525 hypertensive subjects at high cardiovascular risk, the relation of cCIMT to LVM and established vascular risk factors was studied.

Results: CCIMT was positively related to LVM.

Differences in determinants of left ventricular mass assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging across subjects with and without previous symptomatic atherosclerotic disease.

Background: Most previous studies on determinants of left ventricular (LV) mass have used echocardiography, which is less accurate than cardiac MRI (CMR). Furthermore, studies that used CMR to study the determinants of LV mass were performed in the general population. However, determinants may differ between those with and without previous symptomatic events.