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Hyperglycemia and nocturnal systolic blood pressure are associatedwith left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive diabetic patients

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine if hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients, when compared to patients with essential hypertension have an increased left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and a worse diastolic function, and if this fact would be related to 24-h pressoric levels changes....

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Autores principales: Felício, João S, Pacheco, Juliana T, Ferreira, Sandra R, Plavnik, Frida, Moisés, Valdir A, Kohlmann, Oswaldo, Ribeiro, Artur B, Zanella, Maria T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1579206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-5-19