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Published on: February 20, 2017
High prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in octogenarian women: The Jerusalem Longitudinal Cohort Study
David Leibowitz1, Michael Bursztyn, Jeremy M Jacobs
1Department of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount-Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. oleibo@hadassah.org.il
Background:
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is more frequent in women and increases with age; however, it is unclear whether this finding is true in the very elderly. The objective of this study was to examine gender differences in the prevalence of LVH in a very elderly cohort.
Methods:
Subjects were recruited from the Jerusalem Longitudinal Cohort Study. Three hundred and thirty-nine of the subjects from the most recent set of data collection in 2005-2006 underwent echocardiography in addition to structured interviews and physical examination.
Results:
The overall prevalence of LVH was high and significantly higher among women (60% vs 43%, p=0.0023). Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was significantly higher in women with LVH compared with women without LVH (p<0.01) and both groups of men (p<0.005). Women with LVH were three times more likely than women without LVH and 6.5 times more likely than men with LVH to believe that a BP of 160/100 mmHg represents their BP goal (p<0.05).
Conclusions:
This study demonstrates a high prevalence of LVH in a very elderly population, a finding significantly more pronounced in women and related to SBP.
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