ASSOCIATION OF PLASMA-RENIN ACTIVITY AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY WITH FREQUENCY OF NEW CORONARY EVENTS AND NEW ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION IN OLDER PERSONS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

Authors
ARONOW WS AHN C KRONZON I GUTSTEIN H
Citation
Ws. Aronow et al., ASSOCIATION OF PLASMA-RENIN ACTIVITY AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY WITH FREQUENCY OF NEW CORONARY EVENTS AND NEW ATHEROTHROMBOTIC BRAIN INFARCTION IN OLDER PERSONS WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION, The American journal of cardiology, 79(11), 1997, pp. 1543
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:11<1543:AOPAAE>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
In older hypertensive persons, male gender, prior coronary artery dise ase, prior atherothrombotic brain infarction (ABI), and echocardiograp hic left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy are independent risk factors for new coronary events; age, prior ABI, and echocardiographic LV hypertr ophy are independent risk factors for new ABI. The data suggest that h igh plasma renin activity in hypertensive older persons is associated with a high risk of new coronary events and of new ABI through its ass ociation with echocardiographic LV hypertrophy.