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Lack of Reduction of Left Ventricular Mass in Treated Hypertension: The Strong Heart Study

BACKGROUND: Hypertensive left ventricular mass (LVM) is expected to decrease during antihypertensive therapy, based on results of clinical trials. METHODS AND RESULTS: We assessed 4‐year change of echocardiographic LVM in 851 hypertensive free‐living participants of the Strong Heart Study (57% women...

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Autores principales: de Simone, Giovanni, Devereux, Richard B., Izzo, Raffaele, Girfoglio, Daniela, Lee, Elisa T., Howard, Barbara V., Roman, Mary J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23744404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.113.000144