Individual Components of the Romhilt-Estes Left Ventricular Hypertrophy ScoreDiffer in Their Prediction of Cardiovascular Events: the Atherosclerosis Risk inCommunities (ARIC) Study

摘要

BackgroundIt has been recently reported that the Romhilt-Estes (R-E) Score, originally proposed for detection of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) from the electrocardiogram (ECG), is a strong predictor of all-cause mortality. Whether the R-E score is also predictive of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and whether its individual components differ in their ability to predict different CVD outcomes is not well established.