ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2024
Reference Values for Indexed Echocardiographic Chamber Sizes in Older Adults: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
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- International practices and variability in right heart echocardiography: results from the RVNet(Work) international survey.Echo research and practice · 2026Article
- Echocardiographic Deformation Imaging of the Right Atrium: A New Paradigm in Noninvasive Hemodynamic Assessment.Current cardiology reports · 2026Review
- Clinical research and trials in echocardiography: rationale, requirements and future opportunities.Echo research and practice · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundNormalization of echocardiographic chamber measurements for body surface area may result in misclassification of individuals with obesity or sarcopenia. Normalization for alternative measures of body size may be preferable, but there remains a dearth of information on their normative values and association with cardiovascular function metrics. METHODS AND
resultsA total of 3032 individuals underwent comprehensive 2-dimensional echocardiography at Exam 6 in MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). In the subgroup of 608 individuals free of cardiopulmonary disease (69.5±7.0 years, 46% male, 48% White, 17% Chinese, 15% Black, 21% Hispanic), normative values were derived for left and right cardiac chamber measurements across a variety of ratiometric (body surface area, body mass index, height) and allometric (height
conclusionsIn this diverse cohort of community-dwelling older adults, we provide normative values for common echocardiographic parameters across a variety of indexation methods.
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