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(Chest. 1973;64:327-330.)
© 1973 American College of Chest Physicians

Significance of Tall Precordial T Waves: An Electrocardiographic Study in Indians

R. S. Hoon Maj. Gen., F.C.C.P.1; M. Durairaj Maj., F.C.C.P.2; V. Balasubramanian Maj., F.C.C.P.2; and M. G. Sahadevan Maj.3

1 Senior Consultant (Medicine), Armed Forces Medical Services, New Delhi, India
2 Clinical Tutor in Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
3 Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India

Tall precordial T waves can be found in a proportion of normal Indian subjects (2.5 percent). A significantly higher incidence (10.4 percent) was found in those with ischemic heart disease. In younger subjects the chance of tall T waves as a normal finding is high, whereas in persons 40 years of age or older it is more likely a pathologic condition. Women had a strikingly lower incidence of such T waves, in that none of the normal female subjects exhibited a tall T wave. Determination of the QRS axis and ventricular gradient are suggested as means of differentiating pathologic tall T waves from tall T waves in normal subjects.






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