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Do age and left ventricular geometry influence diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension?
Do age and left ventricular geometry influence diastolic function in patients with essential hypertension?
Diastolic dysfunction is prevalent in essential hypertension even in the presence of normal cardiac geometry, and is strongly predicted by age.
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Age and hypertension may impair diastolic function despite normal geometry; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
PURPOSE: To evaluate diastolic dysfunction (DD) in essential hypertension and the influence of age and cardiac geometry on this parameter. METHODS: Four hundred sixty essential hypertensive patients (HT) underwent Doppler echocardiography to obtain E/A wave ratio (E/A), atrial deceleration time (ADT), and isovolumetric relaxation time (IRT). All patients were grouped according to cardiac geometric patterns (NG - normal geometry; CR - concentric remodeling; CH- concentric hypertrophy; EH - eccentric hypertrophy) and to age (<40; 40 - 60; >60 years). One hundred six normotensives (NT) persons were also evaluated. RESULTS: A worsening of diastolic function in the HT compared with the NT, including HT with NG (E/A: NT - 1.38+/-0.03 vs HT - 1.27+/-0.02, p<0.01), was observed. A higher prevalence of DD occurred parallel to age and cardiac geometry also in the prehypertrophic groups (CR). Multiple regression analysis identified age as the most important predictor of DD (r2=0.30, p<0.01). CONCLUSION: DD was prevalent in this hypertensive population, being highly affected by age and less by heart structural parameters. DD is observed in incipient stages of hypertensive heart disease, and thus its early detection may help in the risk stratification of hypertensive patients.
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