Waist size, not body mass index, may be more predictive of coronary artery disease: Study investigates association between obesity type and obstructive artery disease in postmenopausal women

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Elevated left ventricular mass, known as left-ventricular hypertrophy, is a stronger predictor of coronary artery disease-related death and heart failure than coronary artery calcium score, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. In the study led by Nadine Kawel-Boehm, M. D. , a senior staff radiologist at Hospital Graubünden in Chur, Switzerland, a team of researchers analyzed data collected in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. MESA is an ongoing, multi-center study of coronary heart disease causes a diverse, population-based sample of 6,814 men and women age 45-84 with no known heart disease. According to Dr. Kawel-Boehm, there is little research on predicting the long-term risk of cardiovascular events in ethnically diverse patients who have MRI-identified left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, a condition in which the muscle mass of the heart's main pumping chamber is increased. "Previous studies have used ECG or echocardiography, which have lower sensitivity in the diagnosis of LV hypertrophy, and typically follow patients for only several years," she said.

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