Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS o8HR0xGE. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The question on whether the electrocardiographic criteria are reliable for detection of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and play a role in predicting outcome is open. Answer can only proceed from population-based studies over unselected people followed up for years. In this study, 1,699 subjects from general population underwent echocardiogram and standard electrocardiogram (ECG) codified for LVH with Minnesota code and with other five methods. Other items were also recorded and used as covariables. Left ventricular mass index (LVMI) was 127.6+/-44.9 g m-2 in men and 120.8+/-41.2 g m-2 in women, and correlated directly with age in both genders. Prevalence of echocardiographic LVH was 36.6% in men and 53.4% in women. LVMI correlated directly with the Sokolow-Lyon score in both genders at any age, with the Romhilt-Estes, Cornell and RaVL scores in all subjects but elderly men, and with the Lewis score in men and women aged
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