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Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular imaging and diagnostics
  • Biometric analysis and allometry
  • Medical data analysis

Background:

  • Ascending aortic (AscAo) dimensions are influenced by body size.
  • Current methods for indexing AscAo dimensions, such as to height and body surface area (BSA), assume linear relationships.
  • The accuracy of these linear allometric relationships is uncertain.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the allometric relationships of AscAo dimensions.
  • To determine normative values for AscAo dimension indices.
  • To assess the prognostic performance of different AscAo indices.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized UK Biobank (n=49,271) and Penn Medicine BioBank (n=8,426) datasets.
  • Employed a convolutional neural network for thoracic aorta segmentation from medical images.
  • Derived normal allometric exponents using log-log models and assessed prognostic associations with Cox models.

Main Results:

  • AscAo diameter/height, diameter/BSA, and area/BSA showed highly nonlinear relationships.
  • The area/height index demonstrated an allometric exponent near unity, indicating a linear relationship with height.
  • Area/height was the only index that consistently identified aortic dilation across body sizes and was associated with adverse events.

Conclusions:

  • The area/height index is allometrically accurate for AscAo dimensions.
  • This index is independent of body size and consistently predicts adverse cardiovascular events.
  • Area/height offers a more reliable method for assessing AscAo dilation.