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. 2004 Jul;90(7):755–759. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2002.006460

Table 5.

 Relation between left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and the negative predictive values of normal ECG and CTR < 0.5 separately and combined for predicting left ventricular dysfunction

LVEF Normal ECG (%) (n = 586) Normal chest radiograph (CTR <0.5) (%) (n = 472) Normal ECG and chest radiograph (%) (n = 340)
<50% 80.5 82.2 87.9
⩽45% 86.3 87.5 92.9
⩽40% 91.5 93.4 97.4
⩽35% 96.4 97.7 99.1