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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Aug 19;8(9):1034–1041. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.06.007

Table 3.

Unadjusted associations of 2-tiered and 4-tiered classification of LVH with incident HF (A) and CV death (B)

A.
Unadjusted Incident HF
LVH Classification N E HR (95% CI)

No LVH* 1728 7 1.0
Eccentric LVH 434 7 4.0 (1.4, 11.3)
Concentric LVH 296 21 18.6 (7.9, 43.7)

No LVH* 1728 7 1.0
Indeterminate 404 3 1.8 (0.5, 7.0)
Dilated 30 4 37.2 (10.9, 127.0)
Thick 289 18 16.2 (6.8, 38.9)
Both 7 3 135.4 (34.9, 524)
B.
Unadjusted CV Death
LVH Classification N E HR (95% CI)

No LVH* 1728 27 1.0
Eccentric LVH 434 5 0.7 (0.3, 1.9)
Concentric LVH 296 15 3.3 (1.8, 6.2)

No LVH* 1728 27 1.0
Indeterminate 404 4 0.6 (0.2, 1.8)
Dilated 30 1 2.2 (0.3, 16.1)
Thick 289 14 3.2 (1.7, 6.0)
Both 7 1 9.6 (1.3, 70.3)

LVH is indexed to height2.7.

*

Referent group.

N = number of participants. E = number of events. HR = hazard ratio. CI = confidence interval.