COMPARISON OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR MASS AND GEOMETRIC REMODELING IN TREATED AND UNTREATED MEN AND WOMEN GREATER-THAN-50 YEARS OF AGE WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

Authors
ZABALGOITIA M RAHMAN SNU HALEY WE AMERENA J KRAUSE L ONESCHUK L YAROWS S YUNIS C LUCAS C
Citation
M. Zabalgoitia et al., COMPARISON OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR MASS AND GEOMETRIC REMODELING IN TREATED AND UNTREATED MEN AND WOMEN GREATER-THAN-50 YEARS OF AGE WITH SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION, The American journal of cardiology, 80(5), 1997, pp. 648
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
80
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)80:5<648:COLMAG>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
To investigate the effects of left ventricular (LV) mass and geometry in hypertensive patients >50 years of age, 540 men and women were divi ded into controlled, uncontrolled, and untreated groups. The high prev alence of concentric LV hypertrophy in postmenopausal women, despite m edical therapy, emerged as a potentially important and underrecognized factor of their cardiovascular risk.