The impact of different body surface area prediction equations on ventricular dilatation prevalence in youth soccer players.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The normalization of echocardiographic variables for body surface area (BSA) enables to obtain relative indexes of ventricular size that are useful for diagnosis and monitoring of non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies. The BSA values commonly considered in the clinical practice are obtained using predictive equations. Our aims were to investigate the accuracy of different predictive equations for BSA estimation and to evaluate the impact of different BSA normalizations on ventricular dilatation prevalence in youth soccer players.

Methods

Two samples of 369 and 111 youth soccer players of both genders were recruited. Acquisition of optical images (for the players of the first sample), two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment (for the players of the second sample), and

SUBMITTER: Minetto MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12434081 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature