Cnic: Study discovers MRI create precise image of healthy adolescent heart, Health News, ET HealthWorld
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), the team managed, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, to recruit 123 adolescent participants (64 girls and 59 boys) from 7 public-funded secondary schools within the Comunidad de Madrid. The schools and adolescents were already signed up to the SI! Program for Secondary Schools, a program dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyle habits that is coordinated by Fundacion SHE- "la Caixa" in partnership with the CNIC and the University of Barcelona.
"The response of the participants and their families was incredible," said first author Dr. Carlos Real, a CNIC investigator and a resident cardiologist at Hospital Clinico San Carlos. "Some of the schools are located more than 60 km from the city, and the participants and at least one parent or guardian visited the CNIC's advanced imaging facility on an entirely voluntary basis. Without their willingness to participate the project would not have been possible."
Dr Borja Ibanez, CNIC Scientific Director and a co-author on the study, stressed that "the results have direct implications for clinical practice because they providde a list of reference values for multiple cardiac parameters used in daily practice, including measures of the size and functioning of the heart chambers (atria and ventricles) and cardiac tissue composition." Dr Fernandez-Jimenez concluded that "with this information, physicians at any center can determine if cardiac MRI data from an adolescent's heart fall within the normal range for this age group, and prescribe closer follow-up and additional tests if needed."
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