Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Reference Ranges From the Healthy Hearts Consortium
Authors' conclusion
This work represents a resource with healthy CMR-derived volumetric reference ranges ready for clinical implementation.
Study context
- Population
- Verified healthy adults (18–83 years), Healthy Hearts ConsortiumCardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) studies
- Participants
- 9,088 CMR studies
- Outcome
- Age-, sex- and ethnicity-specific CMR reference ranges for atrial and ventricular metrics (95% prediction intervals)
Methodological detailsinternational collaborative, multi-vendor, Analysed with cvi42 (version 5.14 prototype) by 2 expert readers; 3 segmentation methods (smooth, papillary, anatomic)
- International collaborative
- Multi-vendor
- Analysed with cvi42 (version 5.14 prototype) by 2 expert readers; 3 segmentation methods (smooth, papillary, anatomic)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Men
- 4,452 (49.0%)
- Women
- 4,636 (51.0%)
- Age, mean ± SD (range 18-83 years)
- 61.1 ± 12.9 years
- White
- 7,424 (81.7%)
- South Asian
- 510 (5.6%)
- Mixed/other
- 478 (5.3%)
- Black
- 341 (3.7%)
- Chinese
- 335 (3.7%)
- 1.5-T scanners
- 8,779; 96.6%
- 3.0-T scanners
- 309; 3.4%
- Siemens
- 8,299; 91.3%
- Philips
- 498; 5.5%
- GE
- 291, 3.2%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Reference Ranges From the Healthy Hearts Consortium. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. Published 10 April 2024. doi:10.
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