Left Ventricular Mass as a Measure of Preclinical Disease in Patients with Hypertension

  • Richard B. Devereux
  • Michael J. Koren
  • Mary J. Roman
  • John H. Laragh
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Abstract

Although hypertension is diagnosed based on elevation of arterial blood pressure, its clinical significance derives from morbid events affecting the heart, brain, and kidneys. However, the morbid events that most commonly complicate hypertension-myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and atherothrombotic brain infarction—are not directly due to blood pressure elevation, but rather to hypertension-induced cardiac and vascular damage. These structural abnormalities constitute preclinical hypertensive disease, among which the manifestation that has been best studied in patients is cardiac hypertrophy, detected by echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular (LV) mass (8).

Keywords

Cardiac Hypertrophy Left Ventricular Mass Morbid Event Concentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Increase Left Ventricular Mass 
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  • Richard B. Devereux
  • Michael J. Koren
  • Mary J. Roman
  • John H. Laragh

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