Why the study?
Is left ventricular global function impaired in patients with essential hypertension on stable antihypertensive therapy, with or without hypertrophy, compared to healthy subjects?
Population
55 patients with essential hypertension whose blood pressure had been stable for longer than 1 year, and 35…
Comparison
Antihypertensive therapy vs Healthy subjects (n=35)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Tei index may flag early global LV impairment in treated hypertension; hypothesis-generating pending prospective outcome studies.
Is left ventricular global function impaired in patients with essential hypertension on stable antihypertensive therapy, with or without hypertrophy, compared to healthy subjects?
The Tei index reveals impaired left ventricular global function in treated hypertensive patients even before the development of left ventricular hypertrophy, and is not affected by increasing age.
Yakabe et al. (2000) studied this question.
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