The electrocardiogram in morbid obesity

Am J Cardiol. 2000 Apr 1;85(7):908-10, A10. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00894-2.

Abstract

Electrocardiographic variables that occurred with significantly higher frequency in morbidly obese patients than in lean controls were low QRS voltage, leftward shift of the P, QRS, and T axes and multiple electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial enlargement. P-terminal force, RaVL, SaVR, and R/S ratio in lead V1 values were significantly higher in morbidly obese than in lean subjects.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnostic imaging
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / etiology
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / physiopathology
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Female
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / etiology
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Obesity, Morbid / complications
  • Obesity, Morbid / diagnostic imaging
  • Obesity, Morbid / physiopathology*
  • Observer Variation
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Supine Position