LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY IS MORE PREVALENT IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION WITH EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE THAN IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION WITHOUT EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE

Authors
ARONOW WS KRONZON I SCHOENFELD MR
Citation
Ws. Aronow et al., LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY IS MORE PREVALENT IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION WITH EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE THAN IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION WITHOUT EXTRACRANIAL CAROTID ARTERIAL-DISEASE, The American journal of cardiology, 76(3), 1995, pp. 192-193
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
76
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
192 - 193
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1995)76:3<192:LHIMPI>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We report data correlating systemic hypertension and echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy with significant (40% to 100% arterial l uminal diameter reduction) extracranial carotid arterial disease. The mechanism for this association remains unknown.