Why the study?
Does left ventricular geometry predict extracardiac target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy?
Population
77 patients with essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy, matched for age and left…
Comparison
Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy (exposure) vs Eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Concentric LVH may mark higher extracardiac damage risk in hypertension; hypothesis-generating for geometry's independent prognostic value.
Does left ventricular geometry predict extracardiac target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy?
In patients with essential hypertension, concentric left ventricular geometry is associated with more severe extracardiac target organ damage compared to eccentric geometry, independent of left ventricular mass.
Shigematsu et al. (1998) studied this question.
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