Population
138 adult Nigerians (70 with hypertensive heart disease and 68 healthy controls), mean age 49.9 +/- 6.0 years.
Design
Case-control
Authors
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QTc prolongation in LVH may flag arrhythmia risk in hypertensive heart disease; hypothesis-generating, requires prospective validation.
In adult Nigerians with hypertensive heart disease, left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with QTc prolongation, which in turn correlates with an increased frequency of ventricular arrhythmias.
Opadijo et al. (2003) studied this question.
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