Gender and age influences in T-loop morphology

Author

Bortolan, G. ; Bressan, M. ; Christov, I.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Biomed. Eng., ISIB-CNR, Padova, Italy

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

516

Abstract

In the present study the influence of gender and age on the T-loop morphology is taken into account. The population based ECG-ILSA database (Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging) was used. The patient, classified as healthy (328), with cardiac diseases (172), and with hypertension (643) were included in this study. For this purpose, ten parameters characterizing T wave morphology were obtained from the VCG. In addition to the two gender groups, two age groups have been established (<75 years and ≥75 years old). From this study, it turns out that age and gender influence the T-loop morphology differently in the three considered groups. The gender influences the healthy and patients with hypertension, while age influences mainly the patients with cardiac diseases.

Keywords

diseases; electrocardiography; geriatrics; medical information systems; medical signal processing; Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging; T-loop morphology; age influence; cardiac diseases; gender influence; hypertension; population based ECG-ILSA database; vectocardiogram; Aging; Azimuth; Biomedical engineering; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Databases; Electrocardiography; Hypertension; Morphology; Senior citizens;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2003

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8170-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2003.1291205

Filename

1291205