Scaling cardiac dimensions to body size is crucial in the cardiovascular care of elite athletes

摘要

To the Editor, As part of their systematic review and meta-analysis, Utomi and coworkers emphasise the impact of body surface area on the athlete's heart. They underline the critical importance of reporting anthropometrics and/or appropriately scaled data in future studies, but conclude that this approach to analysis is unfortunately rare. We like to refer the interested reader to our recent comprehensive analysis of the influence of various ratiometrically and allometrically scaled body size variables such as body surface area, fat-free mass and height on left ventricular dimensions in athletes.