Quantitative evaluation of left ventricular volume and function in middle‐aged healthy chinese people with 3 Tesla MRI

Abstract

The left ventricular volume and function differs in women compared with men in the middle-aged population, and these parameters have a tendency of decrease with ageing. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:1143-1150.

Reference values of cardiac ventricular structure and function by steady‐state free‐procession MRI at 3.0T in healthy adult chinese volunteers

“…However, in the recently reported Singapore Chinese study, LVEF and RVEF were lower in both sexes as compared with our study and the other studies mentioned above, which were not accounted for by different tracing methods because they used similar methods to the studies by Maceira et al and Hudsmith et al The possible mechanisms for these differences are not known. Li et al provided values for the LV in 90 middle‐aged healthy Chinese subjects in which LVEDVi, LVESVi, and LV mass index were also smaller than the values recorded in our study. This difference could be explained by a different tracing method and narrow age population included in their study.…”

“…Differences between the sexes with regard to ventricular parameters has been reported in several studies . Two studies showed no differences between the sexes in LVEDVi, LVESVi, and LVEF after adjustment for BSA . Usually, LV and RV volumes are larger in males than in females, even after adjustment for BSA.…”

“…Those results provided useful references for evaluation of the structure and function of the heart. However, most of those studies focused on a single ethnicity and included only narrow age ranges . In the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study, 123 Chinese subjects (15.4% of the total population) were included, which showed LV or RV volumes to be smaller, and indexed parameters to be lower, than those of subjects of European descent.…”

“…However, most of those studies focused on a single ethnicity and included only narrow age ranges. 12,14,16,20 In the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study, 123 Chinese subjects (15.4% of the total population) were included, which showed LV or RV volumes to be smaller, 7 and indexed parameters to be lower, than those of subjects of European descent. In the present study, the indexed LVEDV, ESV, and mass, as well as RVEDV and ESV, Abbreviation as shown in Table 2.…”

“…8,14,16,19 Two studies showed no differences between the sexes in LVEDVi, LVESVi, and LVEF after adjustment for BSA. 4,20 Usually, LV and RV volumes are larger in males than in females, even after adjustment for BSA. Our findings also demonstrated the same phenomenon.…”