Obesity and target organ damage: the heart

Does obesity influence early target organ damage in hypertensive patients?

BACKGROUND Various prospective studies have found that lean hypertensive patients have greater cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than obese hypertensive subjects. It was therefore hypothesized that hypertension is more benign when associated with obesity. In the present study, we evaluated effects of obesity on early target organ damage in patients with essential hypertension. METHODS AN...

Heart rate variability and target organ damage in hypertensive patients

BACKGROUND We evaluated the association between linear standard Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures and vascular, renal and cardiac target organ damage (TOD). METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed including 200 patients registered in the Regione Campania network (aged 62.4 ± 12, male 64%). HRV analysis was performed by 24-h holter ECG. Renal damage was assessed by estimated glomeru...

Target Organ Damage in Hypertension

This special issue is related to the main concern in hyper-tensive disease: the target-organ damage. The selected papers approach some aspects of renal and cerebral disease associated to hypertension but the principal focus is on the arterial vessel as the main organ involved in hypertensive patients. Although hypertensive cardiopathy is not specifically included in this issue, the heart diseas...

Doppler ultrasonography and hypertensive target organ damage.

Address for Correspondence: Akihiro Tojo, Division of Nephrology and Endocrinology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8655 Tokyo-Japan Phone: 81-3-3815-5411 Ext. 37219 Fax: 81-3-3814-0021 E-mail: [email protected] Accepted Date: 15.11.2013 Available Online Date: 09.12.2013 ©Copyright 2014 by AVES Available online at www.anakarder.com doi:10.5152/akd.2013.12677 Editorial ...

Pulse Pressure and Target Organ Damage