ArticleAnnals of medicine2024
Haemoglobin levels are associated with echocardiographic measures in a Finnish midlife population.
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- Changes in hemoglobin levels and cardiometabolic health in adults with metabolic syndrome - a secondary outcome analysis of a six-month randomized controlled trial.Annals of medicine · 2026Trial
- Associations of hemoglobin levels with structural knee MRI findings at 33 years of age in a general population-based birth cohort.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Article
- Higher hemoglobin levels are associated with impaired left ventricular global strains in metabolic syndrome: a 3.0 T CMR feature tracking study.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWithin normal variation, higher haemoglobin (Hb) levels are associated with unhealthier body composition, adverse metabolism and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related mortality. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a direct, well validated and reproducible echocardiographic measure for the evaluation of cardiac contractile function, providing additional prognostic value for prediction of a variety of cardiac events. This study investigated the relation between Hb levels and cardiac function measures, including GLS, in a Finnish midlife population. MATERIALS AND
methodsEchocardiography was carried out in a subpopulation of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 at age of 46 (
resultsThe highest Hb tertile had adverse anthropometric and metabolic parameters compared to other Hb tertiles. Of the studied echocardiographic parameters, the highest Hb tertile had the highest left ventricular mass (LVM,
conclusionsHigher Hb levels are associated with an adverse metabolic and inflammatory profile and more adverse cardiac function measures, including GLS, in both sexes in midlife.
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