Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Normalized Echocardiographic Values From Guideline-Directed Dedicated Views for Cardiac Dimensions and Left Ventricular Function
Authors' conclusion
The authors present updated normal reference values for a wide range of echocardiographic measures of both left- and right-side ventricular and atrial size and function from a large healthy population with a wide age-span.
Study context
- Population
- Healthy individuals in the fourth wave of the HUNT study, Norwayof 2,462 examined
- Participants
- 1,412 individuals
- Exposure
- Women vs Men
- Outcome
- Normal reference ranges for echocardiographic dimensions, volumes and Doppler measurements by sex and age
Methodological detailspopulation-based (HUNT4)
- Population-based (HUNT4)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
LVEF lower normal limit
- Upper normal limit of LA end-systolic volume indexed to BSA, across sex-specific age groups
- 44 mL/m² to 53 mL/m²
- Upper normal limit of RV basal dimension, across sex-specific age groups
- 43 mm to 53 mm
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Normalized Echocardiographic Values From Guideline-Directed Dedicated Views for Cardiac Dimensions and Left Ventricular Function. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. Published 8 February 2023. doi:10.
Composed by AI from the published abstract and checked against it. How Briefs are made →