Effect of sex, age and body measurements on heart weight, atrial, ventricular, valvular and sub-epicardial fat measurements of the normal heart.

Aims: Descriptive morphological studies of the normal heart are lacking. Previous autopsy studies have focused mainly on heart weight. We characterize the normal heart by providing normal dimensions of the atria, ventricles, valves and sub-epicardial fat, comparing the findings in terms of sex, age and body measurements.