Population
129 hypertensive patients without concomitant cardiac pathology, mean age 51 ± 15 years, 50% male.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May warrant caution in HCM diagnosis among hypertensives on CMR; leaves open prognostic validation and differentiation criteria.
Asymmetric hypertensive heart disease morphologically overlapping with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is common (21%) in hypertensive patients, suggesting caution when diagnosing HCM based solely on wall thickness ≥15 mm in this population.
Rodrigues et al. (2015) studied this question.
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