Factors affecting left ventricular mass in childhood: the Muscatine Study

DD Malcolm, TL Burns, LT Mahoney, RM Lauer - Pediatrics, 1993 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To examine the contribution of age, body size, and blood pressure to left
ventricular mass (LVM) in childhood and develop a population-based reference of normative
LVM data. Methods. Age, sex, height, weight, and auscultatory systolic and diastolic blood
pressures were measured and an echocardiogram was performed to estimate LVM in 904
normal children, aged 6 to 16 years, in Muscatine, IA. Pearson product-moment correlation
coefficients were determined to describe the degree of linear association between LVM and …