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Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Nigerian Patients with Essential Hypertension: A Retrospective Study to Compare Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Calcium Channel Blockade or Their Combination

BACKGROUND: Hypertension in blacks imposes a greater left ventricular hypertrophy, and accelerated heart failure onset. We evaluated and compared the echocardiographically determined systolic and left ventricular diastolic functional indices in Nigerian hypertensive patients, associated with the chr...

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Autores principales: Ajayi, Olufemi E, Akintomide, Anthony O, Adigun, Adegboyega Q, Ajayi, Adesuyi A L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Inc 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20157363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-5174.2008.00005.x