ABSTRACT

The golden ratio is described, as ‘the small is to large as the large is to whole’. It is an irrational, continuous and non-repeating number and goes on forever. It has been found all throughout life and the physical cosmos. We hypothesized that there may be a golden ratio in the structure of the healthy heart. Healthy male individuals without any cardiovascular risk factors enrolled to this study. We obtained vertical and transvers cardiac dimensions from the 4-chambered echo view at the end of the diastole. Afterwards, the cardiac ratio (golden ratio of the heart) was accepted as the divine of the vertical dimension (large one) to the transvers dimension (small one). One hundred and five healthy male individuals (median (IQR) age 23 (3) years) were evaluated. The mean cardiac vertical dimension was 11.55 ± 0.84 cm and the mean cardiac transvers dimension was 7.82 ± 7.11 cm. The cardiac ratio was continued at approximately 1.6183 (0.02). We determined that there is a constant ratio between the overall cardiac vertical and transvers dimension similar to the golden ratio of of 1.618 in the healthy heart of the young Turkish male adults.