Heart failure continues to represent a major public health burden with prevalence expecting
to increase by 46% from 2012 to 2030, resulting in more than 8 million US adults with heart …

Abstract The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) was established in 1948 to improve
understanding of the epidemiology of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the USA. In 1961 …

The average lifespan of humans is increasing, and with it the percentage of people entering
the 65 and older age group is growing rapidly and will continue to do so in the next 20 years …

Abstract The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has conducted seminal research defining
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and fundamentally shaping public health …

Cardiovascular diseases are the most prominent maladies in aging societies. Indeed, aging
promotes the structural and functional declines of both the heart and the blood circulation …

Objectives. This study was designed to determine the most appropriate method to normalize
left ventricular mass for body size. Background. Left ventricular mass has been normalized …

Composed of type I and III collagens, the valve leaflets, chordae tendineae and collagen
matrix of the myocardium form a structural continuum. Synthesized by cardiac fibroblasts …

Objectives. This study examined the relations of echocardiographically determined left
ventricular (LV) mass and hypertrophy to the risk of sudden death. Background …

Background To date there has been no comprehensive review of the association between
left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) at baseline and subsequent adverse clinical events …

OBJECTIVES.: We sought to determine whether growth influences the relation between left
ventricular mass and body size and whether use of different body size indexes affects the …