Gender and age influences in T-loop morphology

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 /spl ges/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.