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This effect renders the utility of ECG criteria to detect LVH in obese individuals of African ancestry to be of limited value.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Hypothesis<\/jats:title><jats:p>A novel approach to correcting QRS voltages for the attenuating effect of body mass index (BMI) will improve the ability of ECG criteria to detect LVH in a group of African descent.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Left ventricular mass was determined from echocardiography in 661 randomly selected participants (43.0% obese) of black African ancestry in South Africa.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>As compared with Cornell and Sokolow\u2010Lyon voltage criteria, BMI best correlated with R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>, Gubner\u2010Ungerleider, and Lewis QRS complex voltages, but these relations were noted only in those with BMI &lt;29 kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. Correcting R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub> and Lewis voltages by the difference in the slope of BMI\u2010voltage relations in those with BMI &lt;29 kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> vs those with BMI \u226529 kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> showed the greatest performance for LVH detection (uncorrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 0.695 \u00b1 0.025, corrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 0.733 \u00b1 0.022; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001), and also increased the sensitivity (uncorrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 30.6%, corrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 42.4%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0005) with no significant change in specificity (uncorrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 86.3%, corrected R<jats:sub>aVL<\/jats:sub>: 83.0%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.28).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>We offer a novel approach to correcting ECG voltages for the attenuating effects of obesity in individuals of African ancestry, and this 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