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Published in final edited form as: Echocardiography. 2013 Aug 10;31(1):10.1111/echo.12303. doi: 10.1111/echo.12303

Table V.

Proportion of agreed classification (below diagonal) and Cohen’s Kappa coefficient (above diagonal) for the classification of hypertrophy, according to the different image modalities and indices. In gray, results for inter-modality agreement

Normalization Methodology		P_LVH (%)	2D CMR				Echocardiography

			BSA	height^1.7	height^2.7	%predicted	BSA	height^1.7	height^2.7	%predicted
2D CMR	BSA	5.5	*	0.41^†	0.44^†	0.76^†	0.37^†	0.11^§	0.29^†	0.44^†
	height^1.7	3.4	93%	*	0.61^†	0.37^†	0.23^¥	0.23^†	0.23^¥	0.23^¥
	height^2.7	6.8	94%	95%	*	0.55^†	0.33^†	0.14^¥	0.36^†	0.25^†
	%predicted	6.2	98%	94%	96%	*	0.42^†	0.10^§	0.34^†	0.59^†
Echo	BSA	11.6	90%	87%	89%	92%	*	0.41^†	0.53^†	0.42^†
	height^1.7	24.0	77%	79%	77%	77%	82%	*	0.41^†	0.20^†
	height^2.7	7.5	92%	90%	92%	93%	92%	84%	*	0.34^†
	%predicted	3.4	95%	92%	93%	97%	92%	79%	93%	*

CMR – Cardiac Magnetic Resonance; BSA – body-surface area; Echo – echocardiography; P_LVH – Prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy; %predicted - percent of the predicted LVM from a reference group of healthy subjects.

^†

p < 0.001,

^¥

p ≤0.01 and

^§

p < 0.05 for test of null hypothesis that kappa=0