ERRATA | American Academy of Pediatrics

An error appeared in the article by Hanevold et al, titled “The Effects of Obesity, Gender, and Ethnic Group on Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Geometry in Hypertensive Children: A Collaborative Study of the International Pediatric Hypertension Association” that was published in the February 2004 issue of Pediatrics (2004;113:328–333). In the “Methods” section on page 329, the authors wrote: “LVM was calculated from measurement of the left ventricle (LV) using the equation: LVM (g) = 0.81 [1.04 (interventricular septal thickness + posterior wall thickness + LV end diastolic internal dimension)³ − (LV end diastolic internal dimension)³] + 0.06.¹⁵” The sentence should have read as follows: “LVM was calculated from measurement of the left ventricle (LV) using the equation: LVM (g) = 0.80 [1.04 (interventricular septal thickness + posterior wall thickness + LV end diastolic internal dimension)³ − (LV end diastolic internal dimension)³] + 0.6.¹⁵”