Characteristic features of EchoCG parameters in men and women with different geometric configurations

Abstract

An echocardiographic study of 190 subjects in the second period of adult age (108 women and 82 men) has been conducted. The absolute and relative sizes of the left ventricle (LV), left atrium (LA), right ventricle (RV), myocardium mass, and LV mass index were determined. Morphological changes in the heart detected by echocardiography (EchoCG) depended on the geometric configuration of the LV. The size of the RV was significantly increased in women with hypertrophy of the myocardium of the LV. All the EchoCG parameters with the exception of relative wall thickness (RWT) were gender-dependent. The gender-dependent differences in LV remodeling included higher values of LV mass index in men, different dynamics of the LV mass index (LVMI) in subjects with different geometric configurations of the LV, and more pronounced elevation of the index in women with eccentric hypertrophy of the LV (LV EG), in particular. The functional capacity of the heart was lower in men than in women.