IJC Heart & Vasculature
Prognostic value of different electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy in Chinese community-dwelling older adults
By Jing Ma, Ling Chen, Hongmei Zhang and 4 others.
Abstract
Objective
The predictive value of different single electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy (ECG-LVH) criteria and their combined indices for long-term all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in Chinese community-dwelling populations remains understudied.
Methods
6016 participants aged ≥60 years from a Chinese community-based cohort free of prior cardiovascular events at baseline were followed up for 9.39 years (median). LVH was diagnosed using five individual criteria: the traditional Sokolow-Lyon, Cornell Voltage, Cornell Product, and RavL criteria and the recently proposed Peguero-Lo Presti (PLP) criterion. Two composite indices were constructed either with any of the four traditional criteria, or any of the four traditional criteria and the PLP criterion. Cox regression models were used to analyze the associations of these individual and composite indices with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
