Histologically Measured Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Correlates with Body Height as Strongly as with Body Mass Index

Table 2

Mean myocyte breadth (μm) according to LV hypertrophy, dilatation and wall thickening (numbers of cases in parentheses).*

Thickened	No hypertrophy		Hypertrophy present
	Not dilated	Dilated	Not dilated	Dilated
No	17.4A	16.8	19.4A	22.2A
	(38.)	(8.)	(5.)	(28.)
Yes	18.3A	—	21.9A	24.3B
	(5.)	(0.)	(5.)	(15.)
	ANOVA		F (p)
	Hypertrophy		32.8 (<.001)
	Dilatation		11.6 (.001)
	Thickening		2.8 (.04)

* Hypertrophy is LV weight >219 g for men and >199 g for women, dilatation is LV chamber diameter >33.3 mm, wall thickening is LV free wall thickness >16.5 mm; all measurements are taken in the systolic state. Means within a column that fail to share a symbol A or B differ significantly by 𝑡-test (𝑃<.05).