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Left Ventricular Hypertrophy [PDF]

JAMA, 2004
AN INCREASE IN THE MASS OF LEFT VENTRICULAR muscle is intimately associated with most chronic diseases of the heart. Classically, left ventricular hypertrophy, which represents an extreme increase in left ventricular mass, has been thought to represent a reaction to pressure or volume overload.
Julius M. Gardin, Michael S. Lauer
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Reversible Treatment of Pressure Overload‐Induced Left Ventricular Hypertrophy through Drd5 Nucleic Acid Delivery Mediated by Functional Polyaminoglycoside

Advanced Science, 2021
Left ventricular hypertrophy and fibrosis are major risk factors for heart failure, which require timely and effective treatment. Genetic therapy has been shown to ameliorate hypertrophic cardiac damage.
Xiaoliang Jiang, Meiyu Shao, Xue Liu, Xing Liu, Xu Zhang, Yuming Wang, Kunlun Yin, Shuiyun Wang, Yang Hu, Pedro A Jose, Zhou Zhou, Fu‐Jian Xu, Zhiwei Yang   +12 more
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FREQUENCY AND RISK FACTORS OF LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRIC ABNORMALITIES IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS: A STUDY BASED ON THE UPDATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM OF LEFT VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020
Objective: To determine the association between cardiovascular risk factors and the abnormalities of left ventricular geometric abnormalities. Study Design: Prospective cross-sectional, single centered study.
Fauzia Nazir, Tahir Iqbal, Javeria Kamran, Tariq Hussain Khattak, Anum Fatima, Aatika Habib, Saleh Kaleem   +6 more
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The burden, correlates and outcomes of left ventricular hypertrophy among young Africans with first ever stroke in Tanzania

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2021
Background Left ventricular hypertrophy is a pathophysiological response often due to chronic uncontrolled hypertension. Our primary aim was to investigate the magnitude, correlates and outcomes of left ventricular hypertrophy as a surrogate maker for ...
Sarah Shali Matuja, Patricia Munseri, Candida Moshiro, Khuzeima Khanbhai, Karim Mahawish   +4 more
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Left ventricular hypertrophy [PDF]

BMJ, 1995
Left ventricular hypertrophy is often assumed to be little more than a marker for hypertension. In fact, the relation between diastolic or systolic blood pressure and left ventricular mass is not always close.1 2 Left ventricular hypertrophy is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction and death in men and women with hypertension3 4 and in ...
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Specifics of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Characteristic of Phenotypic Variants in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2023
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity which manifests in different variants of localization and extent of myocardial hypertrophy.Aim: to evaluate specifics of left ventricular hypertrophy, the prevalence and
G. I. Ignatenko, G. G. Taradin, T. E. Kugler   +2 more
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LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY; HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS

The Professional Medical Journal, 2015
Cardiovascular system diseases are playing the outstanding role in the cause ofmorbidity and mortality in dialysis patients. Left ventricular hypertrophy is one of the universalstructural abnormalities in patients on regular dialysis. Objective: The target of the study wasto search out the frequency of left ventricular hypertrophy in end stage renal ...
Bhagwan Das, Rafique Ansari, Santosh Kumar, Shafique-ur-Rehman Memon   +3 more
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Left ventricular hypertrophy and insulin resistance in adults from an urban community in The Gambia: cross-sectional study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectiveTo determine the association between left ventricular hypertrophy and insulin resistance in Gambians.DesignCross-sectional study.SettingOutpatient clinics of Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital and Medical Research Council Laboratories in Banjul ...
Bernard Cudjoe Nkum, Frank Botsi Micah, Theophilus C Ankrah, Ousman Nyan   +3 more
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Left Ventricular Hypertrophy: Major Risk Factor in Patients with Hypertension: Update and Practical Clinical Applications

International Journal of Hypertension, 2011
Left ventricular hypertrophy is a maladaptive response to chronic pressure overload and an important risk factor for atrial fibrillation, diastolic heart failure, systolic heart failure, and sudden death in patients with hypertension.
Richard E. Katholi, Daniel M. Couri
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Sostoyanie serdtsa po dannym ekhokardiografiiu lits s ozhireniem, manifestirovavshimv pubertatnyy period

Ожирение и метаболизм, 2011
47 male patients were included in this study: the group of 17 adolescents with puberty-onset obesity (aged 19,7±0,37 years), the group of 20 adults with puberty-onset obesity (aged 32,25±0,96 years), 10 gender-matched controls (aged 20,8±0,25 years). All

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