Myocardial fibrosis and increased passive stiffness are key factors in the transition from compensated hypertrophy to heart failure in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
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Does not support clinical practice changes in hypertensive heart disease; leaves open antifibrotic targets for human HF progression.
Conrad et al. (1995) studied this question.
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