Population
107 patients with untreated essential hypertension and 30 age- and gender-matched normal adults
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Hypertension-associated QT dispersion elevation is hypothesis-generating; leaves open differential risk by LVH pattern and requires prospective validation.
Untreated essential hypertension is associated with increased QT dispersion and various left ventricular geometric adaptations, though QT dispersion does not differ significantly among the different hypertrophy patterns.
Buğra et al. (1998) studied this question.
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