Assessing heart weight at postmortem examination is challenging. There are a range of factors that have an impact on heart weight, such as sex, age, ethnicity, body habitus/anthropometrics, presence of heart pathologies, the physical state of the heart, postmortem interval, and dissection technique. Once the heat weight is obtained, it is compared with charts, tables, and/or online calculators to determine whether the heart was hypertrophied, which may give conflicting results. After that, the pathologist then has to decide whether the heart has caused the death.