Population
479 hypertensive patients with preserved ejection fraction and no history of heart failure.
Design
Cohort
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May warrant closer HFpEF monitoring in elderly hypertensive women; leaves open whether arterial elasticity is a modifiable target.
Elderly women with hypertension exhibit highly fluctuating impairment of diastolic function relative to arterial elasticity, providing a potential mechanistic explanation for their predisposition to HFpEF.
Hoshida et al. (2017) studied this question.
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