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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>S&#227;o Paulo, SP, Brazil</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20130084</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Cartas ao Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Questionamento acerca da preval&#234;ncia de HVE considerada como refer&#234;ncia no estudo pelos autores</article-title>
      </title-group>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosa</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Maffini da</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nunes</surname>
            <given-names>Daniel Perin</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Wilhelms</surname>
            <given-names>Robeta Casanova</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff01">
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">Caxias do Sul</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">Rio Grande do Sul</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de Caxias do Sul</institution>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
      </aff>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>100</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>386</fpage>
      <lpage>386</lpage>
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        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" xml:lang="en">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>06</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2013</year>
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    <p>
      <bold>CARTA AO EDITOR</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Questionamento acerca da preval&#234;ncia de HVE considerada como refer&#234;ncia no estudo pelos autores</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Eduardo Maffini da Rosa; Daniel Perin Nunes; Robeta Casanova Wilhelms</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brasil</p>
    <p>
      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="end">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
    </p>
    <p><bold>Palavras-chave:</bold> Hipertrofia Ventricular Esquerda.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Caro editor,</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Considerando o artigo "Acur&#225;cia da radiografia de T&#243;rax associada a eletrocardiograma no diagn&#243;stico de hipertrofia em hipertensos"<sup>1</sup>,gostar&#237;amos de fazer algumas considera&#231;&#245;es relacionadas ao tema do artigo: 1- inicialmente, queremos ressaltar a redu&#231;&#227;o progressiva da ocorr&#234;ncia de hipertrofia ventricular esquerda conc&#234;ntrica (aumento da espessura de septo e/ou parede posterior) em nosso meio (RS) quando comparados com os n&#250;meros percentuais apresentados na literatura estrangeira de estudos com ecocardiografia<sup>2,3</sup>. Este fato ou fen&#244;meno pode ser atribu&#237;do ao melhor tratamento da hipertens&#227;o arterial, ou ao vi&#233;s: os pacientes sem hipertrofia ventricular vivem por mais tempo e por isso s&#227;o mais prevalentes. E 2- no presente estudo, qual a preval&#234;ncia encontrada de hipertrofia ventricular esquerda conc&#234;ntrica e como foi escolhida a amostra?</p>
    <p>
      <fn id="end" fn-type="corresp">
        <label>
          <bold>Correspond&#234;ncia:</bold>
        </label>
        <p> Eduardo Maffini da Rosa </p>
        <p> Coronel Flores, 510, sala 37, S&#227;o Pelegrino </p>
        <p> CEP 95034-060, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brasil </p>
        <p> E-mail: </p>
        <p><email xlink:href="emaffini@cardiol.br">emaffini@cardiol.br</email>, </p>
        <p>
          <email xlink:href="emaffini2@gmail.com">emaffini2@gmail.com</email>
        </p>
      </fn>
    </p>
    <p>Artigo recebido em 12/10/12, revisado em 08/01/13, aceito em 08/01/13.</p>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Letters to the Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Questioning the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy considered as reference in the study by its authors</article-title>
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      <p>
        <bold>LETTER TO THE EDITOR</bold>
      </p>
      <p>
        <fn id="enda-body2">
          <label>
            <bold>Questioning the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy considered as reference in the study by its authors</bold>
          </label>
          <p>
            <bold>Eduardo Maffini da Rosa; Daniel Perin Nunes; Robeta Casanova Wilhelms</bold>
          </p>
        </fn>
      </p>
      <p>Universidade de Caxias do Sul - UCS, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brazil</p>
      <p>Mailing Address</p>
      <p><bold>Keywords:</bold> Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Dear editor,</bold>
      </p>
      <p>Regarding the article "Accuracy of Chest Radiography and Electrocardiogram in Diagnosis of Hypertrophy in Hypertension"<sup>1</sup>, we would like to make some considerations: 1- initially, it is worth emphasizing the progressive reduction in the occurrence of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (increased septal and/or posterior wall thickness) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul as compared with the percentages reported in the foreign literature in studies using echocardiography<sup>2,3</sup>. That fact or phenomenon can be attributed to either the better treatment of arterial hypertension or the bias: patients without ventricular hypertrophy live longer, being, thus, more prevalent; 2- in that study, which was the prevalence of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy, and how was the study sample selected?</p>
      <p>
        <bold>References</bold>
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