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Obesity in the absence of comorbidities is not related to clinically meaningful left ventricular hypertrophy

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DOI: 10.1007/s10554-021-02207-1

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Obesity; Magnetic resonance imaging; Left ventricular hypertrophy

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  1. British Heart Foundation Clinical Intermediate Research Fellowship [FS/16/70/32157]
  2. British Heart Foundation Oxford Centre of Research Excellence
  3. NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

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The study found that obesity is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy even in the absence of other comorbidities, but the magnitude of this change is modest even in severe obesity. Therefore, left ventricular wall thickness exceeding a certain value cannot be simply attributed to obesity, and alternative diagnoses should be considered.
Obesity is associated with the development of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy. Whether obesity in in the absence of comorbidities can cause LV hypertrophy to an extent which could create diagnostic uncertainty with pathological states (such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) is unknown. We used cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to precisely measure LV wall thickness in the septum and lateral wall in 764 people with body mass indices ranging from 18.5 kg/m(2) to 59.2 kg/m(2) in the absence of major comorbidities. Obesity was related to LV wall thickness across the cohort (basal septum r 0.30, P < 0.001 and basal lateral wall r 0.18, P < 0.001). Although no participant had hypertension, these associations remained highly significant after controlling for systolic blood pressure (all P < 0.01). Each 10 kg/m(2) increase in BMI was associated with an increase in basal septal wall thickness of 1.0 mm males and 0.8 mm in females, with no statistically significant difference between genders (P = 0.1). Even in class 3 obesity (BMI > 40 kg/m(2)), no LV wall thickness > 13.4 mm in males or > 12.7 mm in females was observed in this cohort. We confirm that obesity in the absence of comorbidities is associated with LV hypertrophy, and establish that the magnitude of this change is modest even in severe obesity. LV hypertrophy > 14 mm cannot safely be attributed to obesity alone and alternative diagnoses should be considered.

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