Why the study?
Does persistence of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy predict increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertensive patients with aggressively lowered systolic blood pressure?
Does persistence of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy predict increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in hypertensive patients with aggressively lowered systolic blood pressure?
Persistence of ECG left ventricular hypertrophy identifies hypertensive patients who remain at increased cardiovascular risk despite aggressive systolic blood pressure lowering.
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May identify residual risk despite intensive BP control; hypothesis-generating for targeted LVH regression trials.
Okin et al. (2013) studied this question.
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