Abstract 10869: Using All-Cause Mortality to Determine the Best Method for Indexation of Echocardiographic Measures According to Body Size in Obese and Non-Obese Patients
Abstract:Introduction:
Body surface area (BSA) is the most widely accepted metric for body size indexation of cardiac measures to improve diagnosis, but its use in obesity is questioned. Furthermore, big data analyses comparing indexation metrics are limited.
Hypothesis:
All-cause mortality can be used to identify an optimal indexation metric for transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) measures that will be a better predictor of survival than BSA regardless of obe… Show more
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