HYPERTENSION AND CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE

Authors
SRIKANTHAN VS DUNN FG
Citation
Vs. Srikanthan et Fg. Dunn, HYPERTENSION AND CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE, The Medical clinics of North America, 81(5), 1997, pp. 1147
Citations number
77
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
The Medical clinics of North America → ACNP
ISSN journal
00257125
Volume
81
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-7125(1997)81:5<1147:HACD>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for coronary artery dise ase. This risk is considerably magnified by the presence of left ventr icular hypertrophy. The likeliest dominant factor in this increased ri sk is myocardial ischaemia, the recognition of which is of key importa nce. Antihypertensive agents ideally should also protect against occur rence of the clinical syndromes associated with coronary artery diseas e.