Clinical Article
Left Ventricular Mass Index among young healthy Egyptians using Echocardiography
Mona Rayan, sherif samir elzahwy
Background: left ventricular mass is the result of complex interaction between genetic, environmental and life style factors and its determination had a central role in the prognosis of virtually all forms of heart diseases.
AIM: is to identify normal Egyptian left ventricular mass index as compared to other races.
Methods 500 healthy persons with an age range of 20-30 years; all patients underwent full history and clinical examination to exclude general and local diseases. All patients underwent transthoracic echocardiographic study using Devereux formula. The results were indexed to body surface area.
Results :the sample consisted of 248 males and 252 females with a mean age of 24 years, males had a larger left ventricular mass index (82.8±20.9 vs.75.5±18.4 p= 0.001). Egyptian left ventricular mass was near to Hispanic race and was within the limits set for normal values (131gm/m2 for men and 100gm/m2 for women). Capital inhabitants had larger left ventricular mass index as compared to rural communities.
Conclusions: Egyptian left ventricular mass was near to Hispanic race with inhabitants of the capital had larger mass as compared to rural areas. Racial and environmental difference regarding left ventricular mass and LV remodelling should be taken into account when evaluating cardiovascular risk.
Keywords: LVMI, Echocardiography, Race, Rural, Urban