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- The study evaluated the effectiveness of 55 electrocardiographic criteria for diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) using three different ECG methods: conventional 12-lead, Frank's orthogonal, and a new 4-lead method.
- The analysis involved 244 healthy individuals and 134 hypertensive patients to determine the informative value of each method.
- Results indicated that the 4-lead method's informative value is comparable to the 12-lead method, while it slightly outperforms the orthogonal method in predictive accuracy for LVH.
Article Abstract
The author compared the informative value of 55 different electrocardiographic criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) determined by ECG performed by the conventional 12-lead method, Frank's orthogonal method and by the simplified 4-lead electrocardiographic method, developed by the author, in 244 healthy subjects and in 134 hypertensive patients. The informative value of the LVH criteria according to the 4-lead ECG method is comparable to that of the conventional 12-lead ECG, while the predicative value of the LVH criteria by the 4-lead ECG is even slightly superior to the ECG recorded according to the orthogonal method.
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