The authors gratefully acknowledge the voluntary collaboration of the study participants and the support of the local public health authorities of Jingning County, Zhejiang Province, China. This study was financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 30871360 and 30871081), Beij'ing, China, and the Shanghai Commissions of Science and Technology (grant 07JC14047 and the "Rising Star" program 06QA14043) and Education (grant 07ZZ32 and the "Dawn" program 08SG20), and the European Union (InGenious HyperCare LSHM-CT-2006-037093 and HYPERGENES FP7-HEALTH-2007-201550). Dr Alexander Headley was supported by the AusAID Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development scheme and the George Foundation of the George Institute for International Health, Sydney, Australia.
Objective There is little population-based data on the prevalence and the environmental or genetic determinants of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in China. The purpose of this paper is to study LVH in relation t...