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

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Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

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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).

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  1. Richard B. Devereux MD
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  1. Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

    Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

  2. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Claude Lenfant

  3. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Rodolfo Paoletti  & Maurizio Soma (Assistant Editor) &  (Assistant Editor)

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Devereux, R.B., Koren, M.J., Roman, M.J., Laragh, J.H. (1992). Left Ventricular Mass as a Measure of Preclinical Disease in Patients with Hypertension. In: Gotto, A.M., Lenfant, C., Paoletti, R., Soma, M. (eds) Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2700-4_27

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